FreeRTOS-Kernel is MISRA C:2012 compliant. This directory contains a project to run Synopsys Coverity for checking MISRA compliance.
Note Coverity version 2023.6.1 incorrectly infers the type of
pdTRUE
andpdFALSE
as boolean because of their names, resulting in multiple false positive warnings about type mismatch. We replacepdTRUE
withpdPASS
andpdFALSE
withpdFAIL
to avoid these false positive warnings. This workaround will not be needed after Coverity fixes the issue of incorrectly inferring the type ofpdTRUE
andpdFALSE
as boolean.
Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented in MISRA.md and coverity_misra.config files.
Coverity can be run on any platform mentioned here. The following are the prerequisites to generate coverity report:
- CMake version > 3.13.0 (You can check whether you have this by typing
cmake --version
). - GCC compiler.
- See download and installation instructions here.
- Clone the repo using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel.git ./FreeRTOS-Kernel
Go to the root directory of the FreeRTOS-Kernel repo and run the following commands in a terminal:
- Update the compiler configuration in Coverity:
cov-configure --force --compiler cc --comptype gcc
- Create the build files using CMake in a
build
directory:
Single core FreeRTOS:
cmake -B build -S examples/coverity
SMP FreeRTOS:
cmake -B build -S examples/coverity -DFREERTOS_SMP_EXAMPLE=1
- Build the (pseudo) application:
cd build/
cov-build --emit-complementary-info --dir cov-out make coverity
- Go to the Coverity output directory (
cov-out
) and begin Coverity static analysis:
cov-analyze --dir ./cov-out \
--coding-standard-config ../examples/coverity/coverity_misra.config \
--tu-pattern "file('[A-Za-z_]+\.c') && ( ! file('main.c') ) && ( ! file('port.c') )"
- Generate the HTML report:
cov-format-errors --dir ./cov-out --html-output html-output
HTML report should now be generated in a directory named html-output
.