From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, smatch@vger.kernel.org,
Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Smatch v1.56 released
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:22:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120305072220.GL22598@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330886330.7070.22.camel@joe2Laptop>
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 10:38:50AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Smatch still produces a lot of false positives. Also as bugs get
> > fixed in the kernel, the false positive to real bug ratio gets
> > worse and worse. But it does find real bugs as well.
>
> Perhaps a database of known false positives and a mechanism
> to use it to see only new instances could be created.
What I do is only look at new bugs. I've got a script
smatch_scripts/new_bugs.sh
That takes the output from two smatch runs and prints the bugs which
are new.
Artem has a set of scripts he's working on as well.
regards,
dan carpenter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 18:04 Smatch v1.56 released Dan Carpenter
2012-03-04 18:38 ` Joe Perches
2012-03-04 19:08 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-03-07 16:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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