Re: [PATCH 0/4] RFC: Updates for cppcheck-2.12 warnings

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 13:36:12 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 05:31:34PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:50:18 +1000
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >   
> > > cppcheck 2.12 (which Fedora 38 has updated, for one) introduces a
> > > number of new warnings.  Unfortunately, at least one of these is a
> > > clear bug in cppcheck.
> > > 
> > > This series fixes a number of the new warnings reported in passt
> > > (patches 1..3) and works around the remaining cppcheck bug (patch 4).
> > > I'm pretty confident that patches 1 & 2 are safe and beneficial to
> > > apply regardless of which cppcheck we're using.
> > > 
> > > Patch 3 is a little more dubious, because it potentially increases the
> > > cppcheck runtime.  On my system it doesn't seem to make a significant
> > > difference, but that might not always stay true.  
> > 
> > On my system, it's 23 seconds instead of 21... I don't really see a
> > problem with that.  
> 
> Right, it's like 16s vs 15s for me.  I was just a bit concerned they
> might add more, very expensive tests under the "exhaustive" set later
> on.
> 
> > > Patch 4 is a tricky one.  It applies a specific suppression to work
> > > around the cppcheck bug.  That's necessary to get a pass with the
> > > currently available cppcheck.  However, it's ugly and we'd like to
> > > remove it once the bug is fixed, but have no obvious way to remind us
> > > to do that.  What we want to do here kind of depends how long it takes
> > > the bug to be fixed, which isn't clear at the moment.  
> > 
> > I don't see a big issue with this either, we already have one
> > suppression like that in tcp_clamp_window() where we kind of identified
> > the issue but it hasn't been solved yet.
> > 
> > Once it's fixed, we'll hopefully notice and drop the suppression if
> > cppcheck 2.12 is old enough by then, but if we don't, I don't think it's
> > a drama.
> > 
> > The whole series looks good to me by the way.  
> 
> Ok.  Well, apply whenever you're ready then, I guess.

Sure, applied now.

-- 
Stefano