711573 - Investigate Clang-reported memory bugs in DOM

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I ran the Clang Static Analyzer over m-c and the OS X checkers revealed a number of issues in the dom/ tree.

[plugins]
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-odgG7Q.html#EndPath
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-cfgx5H.html#EndPath
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-14ZYRz.html#EndPath
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-511kzz.html#EndPath

[plugins/tests]
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-39zH6Y.html#EndPath
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-6blyIm.html#EndPath
http://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/clang/2011-12-15-13/report-Z5aWUa.html#EndPath

I have not looked at these reports in detail to assess their validity. However, similar issues were reported under gfx/ in bug 711301 and there was only 1 false positive.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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