From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for git
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:40:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020214045.gpe352xnw5oc36ur@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kabVPhp0_z-e_4jJOFq+jzSE2SsgmFuY-2RUgrEviGKyA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> Not sure what triggered the new finding of coverity as seen below as the
> parse_commit() was not touched. Junios series regarding the merge base
> optimization touches a bit of code nearby though.
I have noticed that "old" problems sometimes reappear when nearby code
changes. I assume that they have some kind of heuristic to identify the
location of a defect, that it probably includes the line number in the
file, and that it can be fooled by too much code appearing nearby.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-20 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <580893d5a4736_4ed37b53181837@ss1435.mail>
2016-10-20 17:05 ` Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for git Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-20 17:58 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 18:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-20 18:06 ` [PATCH] commit parsing: replace unchecked parse_commit by parse_commit_or_die Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 18:13 ` Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for git Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:42 ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-20 21:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-03-26 23:39 Stefan Beller
2018-03-27 10:38 ` Jeff Hostetler
[not found] <596ddaa620821_77f83e7330107c4@ss1435.mail>
2017-07-18 16:59 ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-18 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-18 17:41 ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-18 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-18 18:00 ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 18:06 ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-20 20:32 ` René Scharfe
2017-07-20 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] <55bb53d17f78c_2d71521318537c@scan.mail>
2015-07-31 11:24 ` Duy Nguyen
[not found] <558151df465a5_4fafe3b3182568a@scan.mail>
2015-06-17 13:54 ` Duy Nguyen
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