linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc shmctl compat

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:42:13 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robert O'Callahan <robert@...llahan.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git regression fix Re: Regression related to ipc
 shmctl compat

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:37:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Pulled and pushed out, but I'd like to note that sparse would have
> caught this. Except we are so far away from being sparse-clean that
> nobody runs it.

I tend to run sparse over the nvme code before sending pull request
every time.  But it's a fairly new codebase, so it it actually
is clean.  I wish we'd just default to running sparse at some point
so people have to clean their shit up, as it catches a lot of
useful things.  But maybe for the default we want to tune it down
a bit (e.g. don't warn about missing statics by default, skip
the lock imbalance checks which while often useful also generate
tons of false positives).