[ovs-dev] OVS LLVM scan results

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Apr 17 17:49:07 UTC 2015


On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 01:44:00AM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 08:53:15AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:47:13AM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 07:38:51AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:35:44PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> > > > > For those that are interested, I've run the LLVM scan-build tool to
> > > > > perform static analysis of the OVS code on FreeBSD and make the
> > > > > results availalble at
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ovs-scan/scan-build-2015-04-15/
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!  I ran this once or twice years ago, but I haven't kept up.
> > > 
> > > It seems to me that there are bugs that need to be fixed.
> > > For example: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ovs-scan/scan-build-2015-04-15/report-050910.html#EndPath
> > 
> > Yes, it just takes a while to individually review the reports.  I sent
> > out one fix just now:
> >         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-April/054070.html
> > 
> 
> You fixed over 10 bugs :-)  Please see:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ovs-scan/scan-build-2015-04-18/

Thanks.

It looks like 4 of my patches haven't been reviewed yet, so after they
get reviews a few more of the reports should go away.

A lot of the reports are IMO false positives (I did look at every
report) but I'm happy to hear about it if anyone disagrees.



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