From: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <snakebyte@gmx.de>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:30:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626193034.GA13701@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626191007.GA21925@suse.de>
> So, what does this mean? That coverity is broken, yet again?
right, it means that this was a false report.
> I'm getting very tired of these false positives from them, it is getting
> so that I can't trust the output of the tool at all :(
you shouldnt trust it anyways. At the moment ~11% of the
stuff we checked is marked as bug, ~24% as false or ignore,
5% pending, 4% resolved and 54% uninspected. If we count
pending and resolved to the bugs, that would mean a 50/50
split between bugs and false positives. So we should not trust
it blind and i try my best to avoid such mistakes.
But I wouldnt say coverity is that bad, and it already helped
us fixing several bugs.
Greetings, Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 13:31 [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c Mikael Pettersson
2006-06-22 14:28 ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
2006-06-25 22:59 ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
2006-06-26 19:10 ` Greg KH
2006-06-26 19:30 ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte [this message]
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2006-06-21 21:28 Eric Sesterhenn
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