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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 2017 00:50:31 +0300
From:      Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots Bugs In the FreeBSD 2017 edition
Message-ID:  <CABHD1wRn2uwwh5aBS26pWg%2B71FAQ1P4yVB3Bp_8%2ByRGEg%2BVU6w@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi all,

just a heads up if you haven't yet seen this blog post from Andrey Karpov
from PVS-Studio.
It's a quite a long read.
https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0496/

Here's a few highlights (with some paraphrasing).

>PVS-Studio fixed errors where it's clear how to fix them without digging
deep into the algorithms.
>That's why FreeBSD authors should really do a deeper analysis themselves,
>not just review that limited number of errors that we presented.

>Andrey Karpov is ready to provide a temporary license key and also help to
eliminate false positives that may hinder their work.

Anyone up for this task?


>FreeBSD code is regularly checked by Coverity (which is now a part of
Synopsys).
>Still, it didn't prevent me from finding 56 potential vulnerabilities and
10 more real bugs in one evening by running PVS-Studio on this code.


Br,

Tommi



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