CodeSonar : pvm3.4.6 : Null Pointer Dereference

Categories:	LANG.MEM.NPD CWE:476
Warning ID:	305.28982
Procedure:	tm_mca
Trace:	view
Modified:	Thu Nov 26 11:29:22 2009 show details hide details

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Source | Language: C

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			/kat0/fletcher/SATE/2010/pvm3/src/tdpro.c

			Enter tm_mca

	1863		tm_mca(tp, mp)
	1864		struct task *tp;
	1865		struct pmsg *mp;
	1866		{
	1867		struct mca mcap; / mca descriptor */
	1868		int ndst; /* num of dst tids */
	1869		int dsts; / dst tids */
	1870		int tid;
	1871		int i, j;
	1872
	1873		/*
	1874		* unpack list of dst tids from message (expect it to be sorted).
	1875		* discard tids to nonexistent foreign hosts.
	1876		*/
	1877

mcap = mca_new ();

mcap->mc_tid = TIDGID | tp->t_tid; /* Null Pointer Dereference */

Postconditions

errno' != 0
mcap' = 0