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SubjectRe: filldir[64] oddness
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:02:22AM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 04:40 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:32:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I think coverity is being trigger happy in this case :-)
> >
> > If that's coverity, I'm very disappointed and more than a little
> > suspicious about the quality of their results.
>
> About half of the ~50 reports I've looked at so far in their database
> have been false positives. In most of those cases, it's not obvious how
> a checker might have gotten them right instead, though.

It seems to stumble quite a bit when faced with things that are
free'd when refcounts drop to zero. (skbs, and kobjects).

Dave

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