Coverity Scan: barebox

Analysis Metrics

Version: 2026.04.0-g019d102038

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Note: Defect density is measured by the number of defects per 1,000 lines of code.

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Analysis Metrics per Components

Component Name	Pattern	Ignore	Line of Code	Defect density
Drivers	.*/drivers/.*	No	226,081	1.88
Crypto code	.*/crypto/.*	No	3,987	1.50
Architecture Support	.*/arch/.*	No	1,708	4.68
Commands	.*/commands/.*	No	20,724	2.41
EFI support	.*/efi/.*	No	4,299	0.70
File systems	.*/fs/.*	No	31,392	2.29
Networking	.*/net/.*	No	6,265	2.55
Test code	.*/test/.*	No	2,834	3.88
Common code	.*/(common|lib|pbl)/.*	No	76,237	1.84
DTC	.*/scripts/dtc/.*.c	Yes	10,002	N/A
Kconfig	.*/scripts/kconfig/.*	Yes	9,957	N/A
Modpost	.*/scripts/modpost/.*	Yes	0	N/A
Scripts and Tools	.*/scripts/.*	No	24,096	4.11
Other	.*	No	104,550	0.11

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
120	Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')	11
131	Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size	1
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	63
676	Use of Potentially Dangerous Function	2
732	Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource	1

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