Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932113AbWCIRCA (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:02:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752081AbWCIRCA (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:02:00 -0500 Received: from hierophant.serpentine.com ([66.92.13.71]:19616 "EHLO demesne.serpentine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056AbWCIRB6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:01:58 -0500 Subject: Re: filldir[64] oddness From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Al Viro Cc: "David S. Miller" , davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060309044025.GS27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20060309042744.GA23148@redhat.com> <20060308.203204.115109492.davem@davemloft.net> <20060309044025.GS27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:02:22 -0800 Message-Id: <1141923743.17294.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.90 (2.5.90-2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 04:40 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:32:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > I think coverity is being trigger happy in this case :-) > > If that's coverity, I'm very disappointed and more than a little > suspicious about the quality of their results. About half of the ~50 reports I've looked at so far in their database have been false positives. In most of those cases, it's not obvious how a checker might have gotten them right instead, though.