automation/eclair: add a deviation for MISRA C:2012 Rule 8.6

Update ECLAIR configuration to take into account the search
procedure adopted by Unix linkers.
Update deviations.rst accordingly and tag Rule 8.6 as "clean".

Signed-off-by: Federico Serafini <federico.serafini@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>

diff --git a/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/deviations.ecl b/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/deviations.ecl
index b7c6d85fbf12bb9fe5fdd950b5a8521d77badf86..5b7cf4c9479e298f8e699e2a5664ae18f8ee36d2 100644 (file)
--- a/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/deviations.ecl
+++ b/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/deviations.ecl
@@ -172,6 +172,17 @@ definition is compiled-out or optimized-out by the compiler)"
 -config=MC3R1.R8.6,reports+={deliberate, "first_area(^.*has no definition$)"}
 -doc_end
 
+-doc_begin="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."
+-config=MC3R1.R8.6,declarations+={deliberate, "loc(file(^xen/lib/.*$))"}
+-doc_end
+
 -doc_begin="The gnu_inline attribute without static is deliberately allowed."
 -config=MC3R1.R8.10,declarations+={deliberate,"property(gnu_inline)"}
 -doc_end

diff --git a/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/tagging.ecl b/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/tagging.ecl
index e82277fea3c1e0242b6f13443c071bcf7f7bcac9..d5d3bff396acaf3a08fc4c1dc32fe46df722058a 100644 (file)
--- a/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/tagging.ecl
+++ b/automation/eclair_analysis/ECLAIR/tagging.ecl
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 -doc_begin="Clean guidelines: new violations for these guidelines are not accepted."
 
--service_selector={clean_guidelines_common,"MC3R1.D1.1||MC3R1.D2.1||MC3R1.D4.11||MC3R1.D4.14||MC3R1.R1.1||MC3R1.R1.3||MC3R1.R1.4||MC3R1.R2.2||MC3R1.R3.1||MC3R1.R3.2||MC3R1.R4.1||MC3R1.R4.2||MC3R1.R5.1||MC3R1.R5.2||MC3R1.R5.4||MC3R1.R6.1||MC3R1.R6.2||MC3R1.R7.1||MC3R1.R8.1||MC3R1.R8.5||MC3R1.R8.8||MC3R1.R8.10||MC3R1.R8.12||MC3R1.R8.14||MC3R1.R9.2||MC3R1.R9.4||MC3R1.R9.5||MC3R1.R12.5||MC3R1.R17.3||MC3R1.R17.4||MC3R1.R17.6||MC3R1.R20.13||MC3R1.R20.14||MC3R1.R21.13||MC3R1.R21.19||MC3R1.R21.21||MC3R1.R22.2||MC3R1.R22.4||MC3R1.R22.5||MC3R1.R22.6"
+-service_selector={clean_guidelines_common,"MC3R1.D1.1||MC3R1.D2.1||MC3R1.D4.11||MC3R1.D4.14||MC3R1.R1.1||MC3R1.R1.3||MC3R1.R1.4||MC3R1.R2.2||MC3R1.R3.1||MC3R1.R3.2||MC3R1.R4.1||MC3R1.R4.2||MC3R1.R5.1||MC3R1.R5.2||MC3R1.R5.4||MC3R1.R6.1||MC3R1.R6.2||MC3R1.R7.1||MC3R1.R8.1||MC3R1.R8.5||MC3R1.R8.6||MC3R1.R8.8||MC3R1.R8.10||MC3R1.R8.12||MC3R1.R8.14||MC3R1.R9.2||MC3R1.R9.4||MC3R1.R9.5||MC3R1.R12.5||MC3R1.R17.3||MC3R1.R17.4||MC3R1.R17.6||MC3R1.R20.13||MC3R1.R20.14||MC3R1.R21.13||MC3R1.R21.19||MC3R1.R21.21||MC3R1.R22.2||MC3R1.R22.4||MC3R1.R22.5||MC3R1.R22.6"
 }
 
 -setq=target,getenv("XEN_TARGET_ARCH")

diff --git a/docs/misra/deviations.rst b/docs/misra/deviations.rst
index b5a46f7f8775ddd3ff83ddc47fbe9eab93a7c36a..95872b40a2a24a643636e0c7a37b578cae5cc157 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/misra/deviations.rst
+++ b/docs/misra/deviations.rst
@@ -153,6 +153,18 @@ Deviations related to MISRA C:2012 Rules:
        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.