Warning C26167

Possibly releasing unheld lock 'lock' in function 'func'.

Remarks

Warning C26167 resembles warning C26117 except that the confidence level is lower. For example, the function may contain annotation errors.

Examples

The following code will generate C26167 and C26110.

typedef struct _DATA {
    CRITICAL_SECTION cs;
} DATA;

_Releases_lock_(p->cs) void Leave(DATA* p) {
    LeaveCriticalSection(&p->cs); // OK
}
void ReleaseUnheldLock(DATA* p) { // Warning C26167
    int i = 0;
    Leave(p); // Warning C26110
}

The following code will correct these warnings.

typedef struct _DATA {
    CRITICAL_SECTION cs;
} DATA;

_Releases_lock_(p->cs) void Leave(DATA* p) {
    LeaveCriticalSection( &p->cs );
}

void ReleaseUnheldLock( DATA* p ) {
    EnterCriticalSection( &p->cs );
    int i = 0;
    Leave(p);
}