Re: [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c

Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
2006-06-26T19:30:38Z

> So, what does this mean? That coverity is broken, yet again?

right, it means that this was a false report.

> I'm getting very tired of these false positives from them, it is getting
> so that I can't trust the output of the tool at all :(

you shouldnt trust it anyways. At the moment ~11% of the
stuff we checked is marked as bug, ~24% as false or ignore,
5% pending, 4% resolved and 54% uninspected. If we count
pending and resolved to the bugs, that would mean a 50/50
split between bugs and false positives. So we should not trust
it blind and i try my best to avoid such mistakes.
But I wouldnt say coverity is that bad, and it already helped
us fixing several bugs.