Re: msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity)

[James Hawkins]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Talbot
 wrote:
> Fix for Coverity error CID: 762.
>
> Changelog:
>    msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity).
>
> diff --git a/dlls/msi/action.c b/dlls/msi/action.c
> index 8a8efe7..48557f0 100644
> --- a/dlls/msi/action.c
> +++ b/dlls/msi/action.c
> @@ -3838,7 +3838,7 @@ static UINT ACTION_PublishFeatures(MSIPACKAGE *package)
>     MSIFEATURE *feature;
>     UINT rc;
>     HKEY hkey;
> - HKEY userdata;
> -
>
> HKEY userdata = NULL;
>
> if (!msi_check_publish(package))
>    return ERROR_SUCCESS;
>
> @@ -3952,7 +3952,7 @@ static UINT ACTION_PublishFeatures(MSIPACKAGE *package)
>
> end:
>     RegCloseKey(hkey);
> - RegCloseKey(userdata);
> - if (userdata) RegCloseKey(userdata);
> return rc;

Please don't add another NULL-before-free check.

msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity)

[Andrew Talbot]

James Hawkins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Talbot
>  wrote:
> > Fix for Coverity error CID: 762.
> >
> > [...]
> > - RegCloseKey(userdata);
> > - if (userdata) RegCloseKey(userdata);
> > return rc;
>
> Please don't add another NULL-before-free check.

Hi James,

Sorry, I don't understand what I have done wrong. RegCloseKey() will return ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE if called with hkey==NULL.

msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity)

[James Hawkins]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Andrew Talbot
 wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Talbot
> >  wrote:
> > > Fix for Coverity error CID: 762.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > - RegCloseKey(userdata);
> > > - if (userdata) RegCloseKey(userdata);
> > > return rc;
> >
> > Please don't add another NULL-before-free check.
>
> Hi James,
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what I have done wrong. RegCloseKey() will return ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE if called with hkey==NULL.

...and we don't care what value it returns.

msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity)

[Andrew Talbot]

James Hawkins wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't understand what I have done wrong. RegCloseKey() will
> > return ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE if called with hkey==NULL.
>
> ...and we don't care what value it returns.

Ah, of course! Thanks, James (and Juan).

msi: Uninitialized variable fix (Coverity)

[Juan Lang]

Hi Andy,
> Sorry, I don't understand what I have done wrong. RegCloseKey() will return ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE if called with hkey==NULL.

To expand on James's brief response,
> - HKEY userdata;
> - HKEY userdata = NULL;

This change looks correct, but the other isn't necessary.
--Juan