possible null pointer dereference after a while-loop

src/checkother.cpp

@@ -908,6 +908,60 @@ void CheckOther::returnPointerToStackData()
 }
 
 
+
+void CheckOther::nullPointer()
+{
+    // Locate insufficient null-pointer handling after loop
+    for (const Token *tok = _tokenizer->tokens(); tok; tok = tok->next())
+    {
+        if (! Token::Match(tok, "while ( %var% )"))
+            continue;
+
+        const unsigned int varid(tok->tokAt(2)->varId());
+        if (varid == 0)
+            continue;
+
+        // Locate the end of the while loop..
+        const Token *tok2 = tok->tokAt(4);
+        int indentlevel = 0;
+        while (tok2)
+        {
+            if (tok2->str() == "{")
+                ++indentlevel;
+            else if (tok2->str() == "}")
+            {
+                if (indentlevel <= 1)
+                    break;
+                --indentlevel;
+            }
+            else if (indentlevel == 0 && tok2->str() == ";")
+                break;
+            tok2 = tok2->next();
+        }
+
+        // Goto next token
+        tok2 = tok2 ? tok2->next() : 0;
+
+        // Check if the variable is dereferenced..
+        while (tok2)
+        {
+            if (tok2->str() == "{" || tok2->str() == "}")
+                break;
+
+            if (tok2->varId() == varid)
+            {
+                if (tok2->next()->str() == "." || Token::Match(tok2->next(), "= %varid% .", varid))
+                    nullPointerError(tok2);
+                break;
+            }
+
+            tok2 = tok2->next();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+
 void CheckOther::cstyleCastError(const Token *tok)
 {
     reportError(tok, "style", "cstyleCast", "C-style pointer casting");
@@ -992,3 +1046,8 @@ void CheckOther::returnLocalVariable(const Token *tok)
 {
     reportError(tok, "error", "returnLocalVariable", "Returning pointer to local array variable");
 }
+
+void CheckOther::nullPointerError(const Token *tok)
+{
+    reportError(tok, "error", "nullPointer", "Possible null pointer dereference");
+}

src/checkother.h

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ public:
         checkOther.strPlusChar();
         checkOther.returnPointerToStackData();
         checkOther.InvalidFunctionUsage();
+        checkOther.nullPointer();
     }
 
     // Casting
@@ -108,6 +109,9 @@ public:
     /** Returning pointer to local data */
     void returnPointerToStackData();
 
+    /** possible null pointer dereference */
+    void nullPointer();
+
 protected:
     void CheckVariableScope_LookupVar(const Token *tok1, const char varname[]);
 
@@ -135,6 +139,7 @@ private:
     void conditionAlwaysTrueFalse(const Token *tok, const std::string &truefalse);
     void strPlusChar(const Token *tok);
     void returnLocalVariable(const Token *tok);
+    void nullPointerError(const Token *tok);
 
     void getErrorMessages()
     {
@@ -155,6 +160,7 @@ private:
         conditionAlwaysTrueFalse(0, "true/false");
         strPlusChar(0);
         returnLocalVariable(0);
+        nullPointerError(0);
     }
 
 };

test/testother.cpp

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ private:
 
         TEST_CASE(varScope1);
         TEST_CASE(varScope2);
+
+        TEST_CASE(nullpointer1);
     }
 
     void check(const char code[])
@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ private:
         checkOther.WarningRedundantCode();
     }
 
+
+
+
     void delete1()
     {
         check("void foo()\n"
@@ -326,6 +331,38 @@ private:
                  "}\n");
         ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string(""), errout.str());
     }
+
+
+
+
+    void checkNullPointer(const char code[])
+    {
+        // Tokenize..
+        Tokenizer tokenizer;
+        std::istringstream istr(code);
+        tokenizer.tokenize(istr, "test.cpp");
+        tokenizer.setVarId();
+
+        // Clear the error buffer..
+        errout.str("");
+
+        // Check for redundant code..
+        Settings settings;
+        settings._checkCodingStyle = true;
+        CheckOther checkOther(&tokenizer, &settings, this);
+        checkOther.nullPointer();
+    }
+
+
+    void nullpointer1()
+    {
+        checkNullPointer("int foo(const Token *tok)\n"
+                         "{\n"
+                         "    while (tok);\n"
+                         "    tok = tok->next();\n"
+                         "}\n");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(std::string("[test.cpp:4]: (error) Possible null pointer dereference\n"), errout.str());
+    }
 };
 
 REGISTER_TEST(TestOther)