[Ksummit-2012-discuss] Smatch for static analysis testing

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Jun 22, 2012 7:14 AM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> I'm coming late to the discussion.  Guenter Roeck mentioned static
> checking in a previous message:
>
http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-discuss/2012-June/000166.html
>
> Smatch actually found the bug mentioned in the email.
>
> I go through Smatch warnings for every linux-next release.  Starting
> from the last kernel summit I would have emailed the submitter and
> the OCFS list.  Even back in May 2011 I probably would have fixed
> the bug except that my laptop had just been stolen a few weeks prior
> and I was unemployed.  These days I'm rolling in cash and laptops so
> I'm confident I would have reported it.
>

Would it make sense to give talk/session  about the ways one can screw up
the code unintentionally- so that folks who review patches remember to
check for that? This way we can be better about not submitting code that
has those issues and I hope become better engineers.
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