| R2.1 |
The compiler implementation guarantees that the unreachable code is removed. Constant expressions and unreachable branches of if and switch statements are expected. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R2.1 |
Unreachability caused by calls to the following functions or macros is deliberate and there is no risk of code being unexpectedly left out. |
- Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. Such macros are:
- BUG
- assert_failed
- __builtin_unreachable
- ASSERT_UNREACHABLE
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| R2.1 |
Pure declarations, that is, declarations without initializations are not executable, and therefore it is safe for them to be unreachable. The most notable example of such a pattern being used in the codebase is that of a variable declaration that should be available in all the clauses of a switch statement. |
ECLAIR has been configured to ignore those statements. |
| R2.2 |
Proving compliance with respect to Rule 2.2 is generally impossible: see https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13933 for details. Moreover, peer review gives us confidence that no evidence of errors in the program's logic has been missed due to undetected violations of Rule 2.2, if any. Testing on time behavior gives us confidence on the fact that, should the program contain dead code that is not removed by the compiler, the resulting slowdown is negligible. |
Project-wide deviation, tagged as disapplied for ECLAIR. |
| R3.1 |
Comments starting with '/*' and containing hyperlinks are safe as they are not instances of commented-out code. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R5.3 |
As specified in rules.rst, shadowing due to macros being used as macro arguments is allowed, as it's deemed not at risk of causing developer confusion. |
- Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. So far, the following macros are deviated:
- READ_SYSREG and WRITE_SYSREG
- max{t}? and min{t}?
- read[bwlq] and read[bwlq]relaxed
- per_cpu and this_cpu
- __emulate_2op and __emulate_2op_nobyte
- read_debugreg and write_debugreg
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| R7.1 |
It is safe to use certain octal constants the way they are defined in specifications, manuals, and algorithm descriptions. Such places are marked safe with a /* octal-ok */ in-code comment. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R7.2 |
Violations caused by __HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START are related to the particular use of it done in xen_mk_ulong. |
Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R7.4 |
Allow pointers of non-character type as long as the pointee is const-qualified. |
ECLAIR has been configured to ignore these assignments. |
| R8.3 |
The type ret_t is deliberately used and defined as int or long depending on the architecture. |
Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R8.3 |
Some files are not subject to respect MISRA rules at the moment, but some entity from a file in scope is used; therefore ECLAIR does report a violation, since not all the files involved in the violation are excluded from the analysis. |
- Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. Such excluded files are:
- xen/arch/x86/time.c
- xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpu_idle.c
- xen/arch/x86/mpparse.c
- xen/common/bunzip2.c
- xen/common/unlz4.c
- xen/common/unlzma.c
- xen/common/unlzo.c
- xen/common/unxz.c
- xen/common/unzstd.c
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| R8.4 |
The definitions present in the files 'asm-offsets.c' for any architecture are used to generate definitions for asm modules, and are not called by C code. Therefore the absence of prior declarations is safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R8.4 |
The functions defined in the file xen/common/coverage/gcov_base.c are meant to be called from gcc-generated code in a non-release build configuration. Therefore, the absence of prior declarations is safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R8.4 |
Functions and variables used only by asm modules are marked with the asmlinkage macro. Existing code may use a SAF-1-safe textual deviation (see safe.json), but new code should not use it. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R8.6 |
The following variables are compiled in multiple translation units belonging to different executables and therefore are safe.
- current_stack_pointer
- bsearch
- sort
|
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R8.6 |
Declarations without definitions are allowed (specifically when the definition is compiled-out or optimized-out by the compiler). |
Tagged as deliberate in ECLAIR. |
| R8.6 |
The search procedure for Unix linkers is well defined, see ld(1) manual: "The linker will search an archive only once, at the location where it is specified on the command line. If the archive defines a symbol which was undefined in some object which appeared before the archive on the command line, the linker will include the appropriate file(s) from the archive". In Xen, thanks to the order in which file names appear in the build commands, if arch-specific definitions are present, they get always linked in before searching in the lib.a archive resulting from xen/lib. |
Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R8.10 |
The gnu_inline attribute without static is deliberately allowed. |
Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R9.5 |
The possibility of committing mistakes by specifying an explicit dimension is higher than omitting the dimension, therefore all such instances of violations are deviated. |
Project-wide deviation, tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1, R10.3, R10.4 |
The value-preserving conversions of integer constants are safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
Shifting non-negative integers to the right is safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
Shifting non-negative integers to the left is safe if the result is still non-negative. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
Bitwise logical operations on non-negative integers are safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
The implicit conversion to Boolean for logical operator arguments is well-known to all Xen developers to be a comparison with 0. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
Xen only supports architectures where signed integers are representend using two's complement and all the Xen developers are aware of this. For this reason, bitwise operations are safe. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
Given the assumptions on the toolchain detailed in docs/misra/C-language-toolchain.rst and the build flags used by the project, it is deemed safe to use bitwise shift operators. See automation/eclair_analysis/deviations.ecl for the full explanation. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R10.1 |
The macro ISOLATE_LSB encapsulates the well-known pattern (x & -x) applied to unsigned integer values on 2's complement architectures (i.e., all architectures supported by Xen), used to obtain a mask where just the least significant nonzero bit of x is set. If no bits are set, 0 is returned. |
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |
| R11.9 |
__ACCESS_ONCE uses an integer, which happens to be zero, as a compile time check. The typecheck uses a cast. The usage of zero or other integers for this purpose is allowed. |
Tagged as deliberate for ECLAIR. |
| R13.5 |
All developers and reviewers can be safely assumed to be well aware of the short-circuit evaluation strategy for logical operators. |
Project-wide deviation; tagged as disapplied for ECLAIR. |
| R14.2 |
The severe restrictions imposed by this rule on the use of 'for' statements are not counterbalanced by the presumed facilitation of the peer review activity. |
Project-wide deviation; tagged as disapplied for ECLAIR. |
| R14.3 |
The Xen team relies on the fact that invariant conditions of 'if' statements are deliberate. |
Project-wide deviation; tagged as disapplied for ECLAIR. |
| R20.7 |
Code violating Rule 20.7 is safe when macro parameters are used:
- as function arguments;
- as macro arguments;
- as array indices;
- as lhs in assignments.
|
Tagged as safe for ECLAIR. |