[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] writeback and kernel testing

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 03:34:48PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
 > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
 > >
 > >  > I have another suggestion: Can we get some code analysis tool to run over the
 > >  > kernel on a regular basis ? Or, if we do, some more ?
 > >  >
 > >  > I just happened to get a Coverity result from the 3.0 kernel. Most of the bugs
 > >  > it finds have been corrected in the current kernel, but some are still there.
 > >
 > > They are actually constantly re-running the tests on Linus' tree.
 > > (Looks like the last run was on the 15th). It found 5438 potential bugs right now,
 > > but it needs people to actually review the code to determine if the bug is real
 > > or a false positive.
 > 
 > Are these results public anywhere?  I'm interested in scanning it for
 > PCI-related things.

iirc, you email scan-admin at coverity.com and they'll set you up an account.

	Dave