[Gluster-devel] Coverity scan - how does it ignore dismissed defects & annotations?

[Xavi Hernandez]

Hi Atin,

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:57 AM Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm bit puzzled on the way coverity is reporting the open defects on GD1
> component. As you can see from [1], technically we have 6 open defects and
> all of the rest are being marked as dismissed. We tried to put some
> additional annotations in the code through [2] to see if coverity starts
> feeling happy but the result doesn't change. I still see in the report it
> complaints about open defect of GD1 as 25 (7 as High, 18 as medium and 1 as
> Low). More interestingly yesterday's report claimed we fixed 8 defects,
> introduced 1, but the overall count remained as 102. I'm not able to
> connect the dots of this puzzle, can anyone?
>

Maybe we need to modify all dismissed CID's so that Coverity considers them
again and, hopefully, mark them as solved with the newer updates. They have
been manually marked to be ignored, so they are still there...

Just a thought, I'm not sure how this really works.

Xavi


>
> [1] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/gluster-glusterfs/view_defects
> [2] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/22619/
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