Re: [PATCH 2/2] tests/9pfs: fix coverity error in create_local_test_dir()

[Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>]

On Freitag, 30. Oktober 2020 13:09:26 CET Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 12:02, Christian Schoenebeck
> 
> <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:
> > On Freitag, 30. Oktober 2020 12:44:18 CET Greg Kurz wrote:
> > It's not clear to me where this coverity report is accessible online. A
> > quick search only brought me to statistics about its latest check, but
> > not the details of the report you quoted.
> 
> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/qemu . To see the actual
> defect reports you need to create an account and request
> access to the QEMU project (we happily give access to developers,
> but it is a manual-approval process).
> 
> > And more importantly: is there coverity CI support that one could enable
> > on
> > github, so that pending patches were checked before upstream merge?
> 
> No, unfortunately not. The Coverity free-for-open-source-projects
> system has a very limited number of scans it allows (for a project
> the size of ours just one a day) so we can't open it up to
> submaintainer branches or even use it on pull requests pre merge;
> the best we can do is running it on master daily.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

Thanks for the clarification Peter!

I try to sign up for Coverity next week.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck