[PATCH wayland 0/6] Minor test/scanner fixes

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Aug 29 09:04:58 UTC 2018


On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:17:09 +0100 Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com> wrote:
> > These first 5 patches fix some issues I found by running the test suite
> > under an expanded set of toolchains, including the ASan address
> > sanitiser and Clang's static analyser.
> >
> > Patch 6 removes the leak checking from the test suite completely.
> > Previously due to toolchain immaturity, it was really difficult to run
> > the test suite with checks for memory leaks, so we rolled our own. On
> > the other hand, with Meson we can now just pass '-Db_sanitize=address'
> > to the configure process, or run 'meson test --wrapper=valgrind', to get
> > more powerful and useful checkers.
> >
> > The existing leak checker we have breaks ASan completely, and I couldn't
> > figure out how to fix it. Removing it altogether seemed like a better
> > idea.
> >
> > I've implemented this for GitLab CI, and you can see example output
> > here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/daniels/wayland/pipelines/3663
> >
> > This issue tracks the work left on the CI pipeline to get everything
> > upstream:
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/54
> >
> > If anyone wants to help out, please feel free to grab that branch and
> > run with it; in the meantime, these seem like good fixes to have
> > regardless.
>
> I'm thrilled where this is going. This series is:
> Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
>
> Patch 3 could maybe use a code comment for being so subtle.

Great, I've added that now and pushed the series after a run through
CI. Thanks both for the review!

Cheers,
Daniel


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