Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>]

On 01/10/2015 07:49, Shivangi Dhir wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Shivangi,


> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com
> <mailto:ian.campbell@citrix.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > I had a quick glance at coverity and found:
>  >
>  > CID1055958: use of mkstemp in libxl_vncviewer_exec without first
> setting a
>  > sensible umask.
>  >
>  > CID1311511: lack of error checking on the result of xc_dom_allocate
> in init
>  > -xenstore-domain.c.
>  >
>  > CID1223209: lack of error checking when calling
>  > libxl_cpupool_qualifier_to_cpupoolid in initiate_domain_create (part of
>  > libxl).
>  >
>  > CID1090350: lack of error checking when calling xc_domain_get_guest_width
>  > in xc_cpuid_pv_policy.
>  >
>  > Fixing some of those would be useful I think.
>  >
>
> I would like to fix the above coverity issues. I have cloned the git
> repo [1]. I have also requested for access to the Xen project.
> I am new to open source, so I am not familiar with the procedure. Is
> there anything else that I need to do / know to get started?

You only need to fix a single coverity issue in your small contribution.

A list of useful wiki pages to read:

http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Beginners_Guide
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall