On 01.03.2018 13:59, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:47:42 +0100
> Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 8:08 AM, Julia Suvorova via Qemu-devel
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> basename(3) and dirname(3) modify their argument and may return
>>> pointers to statically allocated memory which may be overwritten by
>>> subsequent calls.
>>> g_path_get_basename and g_path_get_dirname have no such issues, and
>>> therefore more preferable.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova <[email protected]>  
>>
>> What about adding a warning for basename()/dirname() usage in
>> scripts/checkpatch.pl ?
> 
> +1 to that.
> 

Ok. I'll prepare a separate patch for that.
Thanks for the review.

>>
>> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
> 

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