Reference scan here (I believe I also count 5 memory violations):
http://jenkins.mxnet-ci.amazon-ml.com/blue/rest/organizations/jenkins/pipelines/incubator-mxnet/branches/master/runs/1856/nodes/104/log/?start=0

-Kellen

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:07 AM kellen sunderland <
kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Anton, can you provide a sample scan?  I'm interested to see if it
> catches different memory access violations, or if it gets the same ones
> we've already seen reported by clang-tidy.  For example are these
> violations in the reports:
> ------------------------------
> "/work/mxnet/3rdparty/dmlc-core/include/dmlc/concurrentqueue.h:3443:24:
> warning: Access to field 'capacity' results in a dereference of a null
> pointer (loaded from variable 'mainHash')
> [clang-analyzer-core.NullDereference]"
>
> ---------------------------
>
> /work/mxnet/3rdparty/mshadow/mshadow/./tensor.h:64:23: warning: Assigned 
> value is garbage or undefined [clang-analyzer-core.uninitialized.Assign]
>       this->shape_[i] = s[i];"
>
> -------------------------
>
>
> /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8.0.1/../../../../include/c++/8.0.1/ext/atomicity.h:67:29:
>  warning: Use of memory after it is freed [clang-analyzer-cplusplus.NewDelete]
>
> --------------------------
>
> -Kellen
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:20 AM Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear MXNet community,
>>
>> I had investigated the possibility to adopt Coverity static analysis tools
>> for the MXNet project and it turned out that there is a tool provided by
>> Synopsys for open-source projects:
>>
>> https://scan.coverity.com
>>
>> The tool works nicely with GitHub [1] and I found that a scan for a fork
>> (from @apeforest) [2] was already set up. I can not tell how long ago the
>> scan was performed, but at the time of writing the project page shows 5
>> illegal memory access errors, that I think would be worth investigating.
>>
>> If there is interest I would suggest that we would setup a Coverity scan
>> for the main repository instead of a fork and people that have interest
>> managing and fixing issues would request add them to the project.
>>
>> I would appreciate feedback for this proposal and help from people having
>> rights for the main repository to set things up.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Anton
>>
>> [1] https://scan.coverity.com/github
>> [2] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/apeforest-incubator-mxnet
>>
>

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