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Re: Does QEMU's coverity-scan run need to track coverity issues in dtb o


From: David Gibson
Subject: Re: Does QEMU's coverity-scan run need to track coverity issues in dtb or slirp ?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 12:41:43 +1100

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 07:54:14PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Currently QEMU's Coverity-Scan project has a bunch of unresolved
> issues in code in dtc/ and also in slirp/. (I suspect most of them
> are actually false-positives that got re-reported when we switched
> to Meson and the filenames changed, or some similar event.)
> 
> Do dtc and slirp as upstream projects already track Coverity issues
> (in which case we can just close the issues in the QEMU tracker as
> irrelevant, or do we need to investigate these and potentially
> forward them into whatever upstream bug tracker is appropriate?

dtc is wired up to coverity_scan, and quite a few of the things it
caught were fixed a while back.  I must admit I don't re-examine the
remaining warnings very frequently though.  I *think* what's still
there are false positives, but I'm not super confident about that.

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