Re: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for PostgreSQL

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-07-31T17:21:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello guys.  Coverity complained about this patch as below.  What, if
anything, should be done about it?  One solution is to mark it as a
false-positive in Coverity, of course.

On 2018-Jul-29, scan-admin@coverity.com wrote:

> ** CID 1438146:  API usage errors  (SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS)
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> *** CID 1438146:  API usage errors  (SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS)
> /srv/coverity/git/pgsql-git/postgresql/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_ops.c: 2647 in close_lseg()
> 2641     	LSEG	   *l1 = PG_GETARG_LSEG_P(0);
> 2642     	LSEG	   *l2 = PG_GETARG_LSEG_P(1);
> 2643     	Point	   *result;
> 2644     
> 2645     	result = (Point *) palloc(sizeof(Point));
> 2646     
> >>>     CID 1438146:  API usage errors  (SWAPPED_ARGUMENTS)
> >>>     The positions of arguments in the call to "lseg_closept_lseg" do not match the ordering of the parameters:
> * "l2" is passed to "l1"
> * "l1" is passed to "l2"
> 2647     	lseg_closept_lseg(result, l2, l1);
> 2648     
> 2649     	PG_RETURN_POINT_P(result);
> 2650     }
> 2651     
> 2652     

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Commits

  1. geo_ops.c: Clarify comments and function arguments

  2. Refactor geometric functions and operators