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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2010122022250.17866@felia>
Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:25:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-safety@...ts.elisa.tech,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-safety] [PATCH] usb: host: ehci-sched: add comment about
 find_tt() not returning error



On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > And for the static analysis finding, we need to find a way to ignore this 
> > finding without simply ignoring all findings or new findings that just 
> > look very similar to the original finding, but which are valid.
> 
> Then I suggest you fix the tool that "flagged" this, surely this is not
> the only thing it detected with a test like this, right?
> 
> What tool reported this?
>

Sudip and I are following on clang analyzer findings.

On linux-next, there is new build target 'make clang-analyzer' that 
outputs a bunch of warnings, just as you would expect from such static 
analysis tools.

We will fix the tool if we can.

Lukas