linux-kernel - Re: Smatch v1.56 released

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Date:	Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:38:50 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, smatch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smatch v1.56 released

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch still produces a lot of false positives.  Also as bugs get
> fixed in the kernel, the false positive to real bug ratio gets
> worse and worse.  But it does find real bugs as well.

Perhaps a database of known false positives and a mechanism
to use it to see only new instances could be created.

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