On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 02:28:58PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > Hey Dan > > I want to add an smatch check s part of a patch that I'm preparing [1]. > The check will be based on your suggestion a while back [2]. But I have > several questions before I submit the patch: > > 1. Were do I submit the patch to? Is it this mailing list? Yes. > 2. What repo do I use to submit? is it git://repo.or.cz/smatch.gi Yes. Base it on that. > 3. I want to understand more how smatch gets run: > 3.1 If my patch get into the smatch repo, will it just run automatically > from then on? > 3.2 How are the failure communicated? is it just you sending out the > failures? > 3.3 Are these checks related to 0-day? There are a lot of people who run Smatch these days, so they'd see the warnings. I also run it on linux-next. The 0-day bot also runs Smatch but I look over the warnings and filter out false positives and sometimes I filter out duplicate warnings for uninitialized variable bugs. regards, dan carpenter
