From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4CB733BBB5 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768416968; cv=none; b=QnlcGRTDoC692xrnETMdRQkZTAZKicsuszflk4bV/SoWDLVo9mxg246BNNKj1Ob9pA41swBm/kEROl0RQ1cbwooC8uw/Nmp2SDSH8iu7AdVSRwvnkWZt94JsInUVBrKMDB14kuZsBiMqZY1jbReVDOapL2JHjSNPGEDaUGAQYNo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768416968; c=relaxed/simple; bh=YdCUg8NzWbyzZSxbCz+GK9qULo67LffCaq2JFxkWO10=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Disposition; b=tJIs9FJJgEYW6PcTr9o2DYi+K8n0CCvayOlbMCig0Ty7BDrZ+YcIHWxA5R7M9WCKb2gRsmONLctUOnQepBcvL4ZrAC9BiO802cSbqXTKafvdfklzzLP0BYepQXKdSYSgGkE7qPS8+TxNmS2LtUMAi5Zy/0djQ/9Tom7e1f9NlZA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=I5wx4bEl; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="I5wx4bEl" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55FEEC19421 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:56:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1768416968; bh=YdCUg8NzWbyzZSxbCz+GK9qULo67LffCaq2JFxkWO10=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=I5wx4bElbO2boNcSYIv1pYN/rGviNe+SmV81DfbNL5yXjEAINLtBCY3hD0j6wVfbc PL3DFEHqwafmRr5Qu3AleHpkxFgb5mepOaysmRJ/EA21EQIQSqo7YTjf4p0XfNPJvW GtSpJP91wtmGYV/oEgsI231kQ4vXTjPiR4XlWgzqOyVHHQ1lWlZGm8C8hzW9U+WXT+ g/ZjBMjIUYLrkRgR3Gzis5J6mRKNli7daN6n/wxT0SrzRz+I4iUjGrs//fVYxaw92F UPkLilwXBocJ74VVHNCZ9GbuDMWe/gpLPbdyEHIWq9eiPQd9cLYUkUYR7SQmHzF8wm mBqG20Vy2wxpg== Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:56:07 -0800 From: Kees Cook To: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Subject: Coverity scanning offline Message-ID: <202601141054.4A30A22@keescook> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I mentioned this on Fedi[1], but I should repeat it here: Coverity scanning is offline until it supports[2] -fms-extensions for transparent structs, which were enabled globally in Linux after v6.18. -Kees [1] https://hachyderm.io/@kees/115894901529239937 [2] https://community.blackduck.com/s/question/0D5Ul00000cztsCKAQ/linux-scanning-is-broken-coverity-needs-to-support-fmsextensions-option -- Kees Cook