From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shivangi Dhir Subject: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 02:41:17 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3397323178177812979==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfaHf-0000Zt-18 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:11:59 +0000 Received: by qgt47 with SMTP id 47so79814298qgt.2 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:11:56 -0700 (PDT) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============3397323178177812979== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11376f4632e03a052098cc83 --001a11376f4632e03a052098cc83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, I am an Outreachy 2015 Applicant. I have a background in C, C++ and shell scripting. I am also familiar with concepts of Operating Systems. I would like to contribute to the Xen project and it would be very helpful if I could get some help getting started. I have gone through the beginner's guide [0] and cloned the git repository [1]. -- Regards, Shivangi Dhir [0] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Beginners_Guide [1] git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git --001a11376f4632e03a052098cc83 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi,

I am an Outreachy 2015 App= licant. I have a background in C, C++ and shell scripting. I am also famili= ar with concepts of Operating Systems.

I would like to contrib= ute to the Xen project and it would be very helpful if I could get some hel= p getting started.

I have gone through the beginner's guide [0= ] and cloned the git repository [1].

--001a11376f4632e03a052098cc83-- --===============3397323178177812979== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============3397323178177812979==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shivangi Dhir Subject: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:20:19 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5030693596666608709==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgW1N-0004wE-KL for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:51:01 +0000 Received: by qgez77 with SMTP id z77so116999059qge.1 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 03:50:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============5030693596666608709== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11376f46fcf1560520cc787c --001a11376f46fcf1560520cc787c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, I am an Outreachy 2015 Applicant. I have a background in C, C++ and shell scripting. I am also familiar with concepts of Operating Systems. I would like to contribute to the Xen project and it would be very helpful if I could get some help getting started. I have gone through the beginner's guide [0] and cloned the git repository [1]. -- Regards, Shivangi Dhir [0] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Beginners_Guide [1] git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git --001a11376f46fcf1560520cc787c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --001a11376f46fcf1560520cc787c-- --===============5030693596666608709== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============5030693596666608709==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:40:50 +0100 Message-ID: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgWot-0003Fz-RG for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:42:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Shivangi Dhir , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Lars Kurth , Wei Liu , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 28/09/15 11:50, Shivangi Dhir wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I am an Outreachy 2015 Applicant. I have a background in C, C++ and > shell scripting. I am also familiar with concepts of Operating Systems. > > I would like to contribute to the Xen project and it would be very > helpful if I could get some help getting started. > > I have gone through the beginner's guide [0] and cloned the git > repository [1]. To complete your application, you have to pick up to make a small contribution to Xen [1]. We don't seem to have many small task on bugs.xenproject.org/xen, so I've CCed a few people who may know if we have small coverity issue to fix. Regards, [1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round11 -- Julien Grall From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:10:26 +0100 Message-ID: <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> References: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgb0Y-0005wr-2R for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:10:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Julien Grall , Shivangi Dhir , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Lars Kurth , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:40 +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > We don't seem to have many small task on bugs.xenproject.org/xen, so > I've CCed a few people who may know if we have small coverity issue to > fix. 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. Ian. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shivangi Dhir Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:19:59 +0530 Message-ID: References: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7434366573622295129==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhXhR-0000dN-A2 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:50:41 +0000 Received: by qgez77 with SMTP id z77so56625920qge.1 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:50:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Julien Grall , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Lars Kurth , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============7434366573622295129== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11376f46028b9c05210577d6 --001a11376f46028b9c05210577d6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ian Campbell 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? Thanks alot. -- Regards, Shivangi Dhir [1] git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git --001a11376f46028b9c05210577d6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 ope= n source, so I am not familiar with the procedure. Is there anything else t= hat I need to do / know to get started?

Thanks alot.=
--001a11376f46028b9c05210577d6-- --===============7434366573622295129== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============7434366573622295129==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:50:46 +0100 Message-ID: <560CE5D6.10508@citrix.com> References: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhYdk-0007QF-DX for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:50:56 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Shivangi Dhir , Ian Campbell Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Lars Kurth , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/10/2015 07:49, Shivangi Dhir wrote: > Hi, Hi Shivangi, > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ian Campbell > 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:33:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20151001093304.GB1492@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhaEl-0002nV-Bo for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:33:15 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Shivangi Dhir Cc: Julien Grall , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Lars Kurth , Wei Liu , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:19:59PM +0530, Shivangi Dhir wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ian Campbell > 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? > Note that you don't need access to coverity scan in order to fix the bugs listed in this email. Coverity won't give you more insight than what is already available here. If you think the one-liner description is not enough, please let us know. But I would encourage you read code first, and send separate email to xen-devel for a specific bug and questions related to it. Wei. > Thanks alot. > > -- > Regards, > Shivangi Dhir > > [1] git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git