C++: Field flow through conflated ChiInstructions #3670
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Allowing field flow through ChiInstructions that are conflated into
{AllAliasedMemory}
gives us quite a few good results in qltest (see the comments in https://github.com/github/codeql-c-analysis-team/issues/64#issuecomment-640606009).It does, however, also opens the door for some false positives. I've added one such false positive in
simple.cpp
.The question now is: how many false positives will this actually result in. I've started a CPP-difference to check for this: https://jenkins.internal.semmle.com/job/Changes/job/CPP-Differences/1187/
One option (as suggested by @jbj) if we get a lot of false positives is to start using the type pruning feature from the shared dataflow library.