Coverity TAINTED_SCALAR - CID 12542 - plugins/inotify/src/inotify.cpp - in function: InotifyScreen::processEvents() - Calling function "read(int, void *, size_t)" taints argument "buf".

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CID: 12542
Checker: TAINTED_SCALAR
Category: array_index_read
CWE definition: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
File: /tmp/buildd/compiz-0.9.9~daily13.01.14/plugins/inotify/src/inotify.cpp
Function: InotifyScreen::processEvents()
Code snippet:
 70 {
 71 char buf[256 * (sizeof (struct inotify_event) + 16)];
 72 int len;
 73
CID 12542 - TAINTED_SCALAR
Calling function "read(int, void *, size_t)" taints argument "buf".
 74 len = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf));
 75 if (len < 0)
 76 {
 77 perror ("read");
 78 }
 79 else

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