From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ide: coverity touchups
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:30:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A4C890.70402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A41474.8000004@redhat.com>
On 13/07/2015 21:41, John Snow wrote:
>>> >> s->ports should never exceed 32, but coverity doesn't know that.
>>> >> ncq_tfs->sector_count should also never exceed 64K.
>> >
>> > Personally I tend to mark that kind of thing as a false
>> > positive in the coverity UI and move on...
>> >
>> > -- PMM
>> >
> Either way; Paolo pinged me about the NCQ one so I figured I'd just do it.
Yeah, neither is particularly optimal. Every now and then (a couple
years, say) you do have to re-evaluate false positives, so it's better
to fix them if possible. On the other hand the code is uglier.
Let's ignore these in Coverity---with a triaging comment there about why
they are false positives.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-13 19:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ide: coverity touchups John Snow
2015-07-13 19:40 ` Peter Maydell
2015-07-13 19:41 ` John Snow
2015-07-14 8:30 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-07-14 15:00 ` John Snow
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