clang-tidy is a static code analysis tool under the llvm umbrella. It is primarily meant to be used on C++ code bases, but some of the checks it provides also apply to C. The findings vary in severity and contain pseudo-false-positives, i.e. clang-tidy is flagging potential execution flows that could happen in theory but are virtually impossible in real life: In function `virGetUnprivSGIOSysfsPath`, variables `maj` and `min` would be read unintialized if `stat()` failed and set `errno` to a negative value, to name just one example. The main source of false positive findings is the lack of support for `__attribute__((cleanup))` in clang-tidy, which is heavily used in libvirt through glib's `g_autofree` and `g_auto()` macros: #include <stdlib.h> void freeptr(int** p) { if (*p) free(*p); } int main() { __attribute__((cleanup(freeptr))) int *ptr = NULL; ptr = calloc(sizeof(int), 1); return 0; /* flagged as memory leak of `ptr` */ } This sadly renders clang-tidy's analysis of dynamic memory useless, hiding all real issues that it could otherwise find. Meson provides excellent integration for clang-tidy (a "clang-tidy" target is automatically generated if a ".clang-tidy" configuration file is present in the project's root directory). The amount of false-positives (many of which present in a group of checks that cannot be disabled), random segfaults in memory constraint environments such as the containers in the CI, and the slow analysis (triggering time-outs in the CI), make this tool unfit for inclusion in libvirt's GitLab CI though. The patches in this series are the result of fixing some of the issues reported by running CC=clang meson build ninja -C build # generate sources and header files ninja -C build clang-tidy with the following `.clang-tidy` configuration file: --- Checks: > *, -abseil-*, -android-*, -boost-*, -cppcoreguidelines-*, -fuchsia-*, -google-*, -hicpp-*, -llvm-*, -modernize-*, -mpi-, -objc-, -openmp-, -zircon-*, -readability-braces-around-statements, -readability-magic-numbers WarningsAsErrors: '*' HeaderFilterRegex: '' FormatStyle: none ... V1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-January/msg01152.html Changes since V1: * Expanded the justification for the "Replace bzero() with memset()" patch. * Rewrote "udevProcessCCW: Initialize variable". * Rewrote "tests: Prevent mallo with size 0". * Dropped "vircommand: Remove NULL check in virCommandAddArg". Note that this series now depends on the rewrite of tests/commandhelper.c, which can be found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-February/msg00034.html Regards, Tim Tim Wiederhake (10): virfile: Remove redundant #ifndef xen: Fix indentation in xenParseXLSpice qemu_tpm: Fix indentation in qemuTPMEmulatorBuildCommand virsh-domain: Fix error handling of pthread_sigmask Replace bzero() with memset() udevProcessCCW: Initialize variable virhostuptime: Fix rounding in uptime calculation tests: Prevent malloc with size 0 vircryptotest: Directly assign string to avoid memcpy vircommand: Simplify virCommandAddArg src/libxl/xen_xl.c | 5 ++--- src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_tpm.c | 8 +++++--- src/util/virarptable.c | 2 +- src/util/vircommand.c | 7 +------ src/util/virfile.c | 4 ++-- src/util/virhostuptime.c | 4 +++- tests/commandhelper.c | 3 +++ tests/vircryptotest.c | 5 +---- tests/virpcimock.c | 2 +- tools/virsh-domain.c | 8 ++++---- 11 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 2.26.2