From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: Fwd: Contributing to Xen for Outreachy 2015 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:50:46 +0100 Message-ID: <560CE5D6.10508@citrix.com> References: <56092742.8030206@citrix.com> <1443456626.16718.8.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhYdk-0007QF-DX for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:50:56 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Shivangi Dhir , Ian Campbell Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Lars Kurth , Wei Liu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/10/2015 07:49, Shivangi Dhir wrote: > Hi, Hi Shivangi, > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Ian Campbell > wrote: > > > > I had a quick glance at coverity and found: > > > > CID1055958: use of mkstemp in libxl_vncviewer_exec without first > setting a > > sensible umask. > > > > CID1311511: lack of error checking on the result of xc_dom_allocate > in init > > -xenstore-domain.c. > > > > CID1223209: lack of error checking when calling > > libxl_cpupool_qualifier_to_cpupoolid in initiate_domain_create (part of > > libxl). > > > > CID1090350: lack of error checking when calling xc_domain_get_guest_width > > in xc_cpuid_pv_policy. > > > > Fixing some of those would be useful I think. > > > > I would like to fix the above coverity issues. I have cloned the git > repo [1]. I have also requested for access to the Xen project. > I am new to open source, so I am not familiar with the procedure. Is > there anything else that I need to do / know to get started? You only need to fix a single coverity issue in your small contribution. A list of useful wiki pages to read: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Beginners_Guide http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches Regards, -- Julien Grall