On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 14:54 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@gmail.com> > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:23 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > >> We want to know the implications of the bug being fixed. > >> Does it potentially cause an OOPS? Bad reference counting and thus > >> potential leaks or early frees? > >> > >> You have to analyze the implications and ramifications of the bug > >> being fixed. We need that information.
You are asking for deeper level analysis that may not be reasonably possible from the robotic patch fixed by a robotic piece of a bit of code correction via a static analysis. > >> It's just "bad error code, this is the script that fixed it, kthx, > >> bye" which is pretty much useless for anaylsis. Which may be all but impossible but for the handful of folks that know all the gory/intimate details of the original bit of code. > What does it potentially cause the caller to do? Will it potentially > treat an error as a success and as a result register an object > illegally? > > Real analysis please. The text you provided above is basically still > robotic and could be used to describe any error code return fix. Right, it's useful to attempt but may be infeasible in practice. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
