bugprone-misplaced-operator-in-strlen-in-alloc¶
Finds cases where 1 is added to the string in the argument to strlen(), strnlen(), strnlen_s(), wcslen(), wcsnlen(), and wcsnlen_s() instead of the result and the value is used as an argument to a memory allocation function (malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), alloca()) or the new[] operator in C++. The check detects error cases even if one of these functions (except the new[] operator) is called by a constant function pointer. Cases where 1 is added both to the parameter and the result of the strlen()-like function are ignored, as are cases where the whole addition is surrounded by extra parentheses.
C example code:
void bad_malloc(char *str) {
char *c = (char*) malloc(strlen(str + 1));
}
The suggested fix is to add 1 to the return value of strlen() and not to its argument. In the example above the fix would be
char *c = (char*) malloc(strlen(str) + 1);
C++ example code:
void bad_new(char *str) {
char *c = new char[strlen(str + 1)];
}
As in the C code with the malloc() function, the suggested fix is to add 1 to the return value of strlen() and not to its argument. In the example above the fix would be
char *c = new char[strlen(str) + 1];
Example for silencing the diagnostic:
void bad_malloc(char *str) {
char *c = (char*) malloc(strlen((str + 1)));
}