I am working on improving Klocwork's defect detection tools and. During that process we use large open sourced codebases to test our performance, false positive rate etc. One of these codebases is a Linux kernel.
Recently I posted a couple of potential defects to Linux kerenel mailing list, and OSDL developer Randy Dunlap acknowledged that these are real defects, impact is very limited though. You have to have sysadmin capabilities in order to have a possibility to crash the application.
However that was just a "foot in the door". Expect to hear about more defects found by Klocwork in Linux kernel and other open source projects soon.
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Submitted by frolov on Thu, 2005-03-17 14:50.
