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V692. Inappropriate attempt to append a…
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V692. Inappropriate attempt to append a null character to a string. To determine the length of a string by 'strlen' function correctly, use a string ending with a null terminator in the first place.

May 16 2014

The analyzer has detected an interesting error pattern. In order to write a terminal null at the end of a string, the programmer uses the strlen() function to calculate its length. The result will be unpredictable. The string must be already null-terminated for the strlen() function to work properly.

For example:

char *linkname;
....
linkname[strlen(linkname)] = '\0';

This code doesn't make any sense: the null terminator will be written right into that very cell where 0 was found. At the same time, the strlen() function may reach far beyond the buffer, leading to undefined behavior.

To fix the code, we should use some other method to calculate the string length:

char *linkname;
size_t len;
....
linkname[len] = '\0';

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You can look at examples of errors detected by the V692 diagnostic.