linux-hardening - Coverity scanning offline

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Message-ID: <202601141054.4A30A22@keescook>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:56:07 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Coverity scanning offline

Hi,

I mentioned this on Fedi[1], but I should repeat it here: Coverity
scanning is offline until it supports[2] -fms-extensions for transparent
structs, which were enabled globally in Linux after v6.18.

-Kees

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@kees/115894901529239937
[2] https://community.blackduck.com/s/question/0D5Ul00000cztsCKAQ/linux-scanning-is-broken-coverity-needs-to-support-fmsextensions-option

-- 
Kees Cook