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Re: Smatch for Xen

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 01:31:32PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:40:08PM +0200, Norbert Manthey wrote:
> > Dear Dan,
> > 
> > I use my one-line-scan tool [1] to run smatch against non-kernel
> > projects. However, for Xen I still use -p=kernel, to have all the
> > analysis enabled. I did not write an evaluation routine to present the
> > defects or statistics for smatch in a nice way, but smatch can be
> > invoked. For the latest Xen, smatch (actually sparse) seems to struggle
> > with the attribute __pointer__ token, as that's not defined.
> > 
> > A typical invocation for smatch would look like the following:
> > 
> > export SMATCH_EXTRA_ARG="-p=kernel --file-output"
> > one-line-scan -o SMATCH --smatch --no-gotocc --no-analysis \
> >   -- make xen -j $(nproc) -B
> > 
> > I will look into using the debug info next, and see how taint
> > information is propagated.
> > 
> 
> I tried use one-line-scan but I didn't want to install it in my $PATH so
> I couldn't figure out how to make it work...
> 

I got one-line-scan to work I think but it still only built those three
files.  :(

regards,
dan carpenter

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