From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filldir[64] oddness
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:07:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060309170740.GA9876@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141923743.17294.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:02:22AM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 04:40 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:32:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I think coverity is being trigger happy in this case :-)
> >
> > If that's coverity, I'm very disappointed and more than a little
> > suspicious about the quality of their results.
>
> About half of the ~50 reports I've looked at so far in their database
> have been false positives. In most of those cases, it's not obvious how
> a checker might have gotten them right instead, though.
It seems to stumble quite a bit when faced with things that are
free'd when refcounts drop to zero. (skbs, and kobjects).
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 4:27 filldir[64] oddness Dave Jones
2006-03-09 4:32 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-09 4:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-09 4:40 ` Al Viro
2006-03-09 17:02 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 17:07 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-03-09 17:15 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-09 17:27 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-10 1:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-10 1:44 ` Al Viro
2006-03-09 4:33 ` Vadim Lobanov
2006-03-09 4:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-03-09 4:38 ` Al Viro
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