Bug 218429

Summary:	An article, describing a large number of errors
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Andrey Karpov <karpov>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	emaste, maxim
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Andrey Karpov 2017-04-06 12:58:26 UTC

It's high time to recheck FreeBSD project and to show that even in such serious and qualitative projects PVS-Studio easily finds errors. This time I decided to take a look at the analysis process in terms of detecting potential vulnerabilities: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0496/

There is no point in fixing bugs, using this article. The article was meant to demonstrate the abilities of PVS-Studio. The best variant would be the analysis done by the developers themselves. We are ready to do this: provide a temporary license key and set up the analyzer.

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2017-04-06 14:26:26 UTC

Although I'm not in a position to review source patches, I have forwarded your information along to see if I can find whichever parties might be interested in working with you.  I do not think there is an established policy for something like this.

Comment 2 Maxim Konovalov freebsd_committer

2017-04-06 14:31:28 UTC

Just for the sake of completness: I already replied to Andrey privately about possible options and communication channels.

Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2017-04-06 14:32:52 UTC

Maxim: ok, thanks.

Comment 4 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2017-08-02 16:10:44 UTC

This was handled by private communications.