Enabling new clang-tidy checks

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Julia Hansbrough

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Apr 24, 2025, 10:56:59 PMApr 24
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Hey all,

There was an effort a while back to enable useful clang-tidy checks in Chromium that seems to have been abandoned due to time/resources.

I'm interested in reviving this effort and propose restarting with the following two checks that seem particularly low-risk but could catch some useful bugs.

I'd like to turn on the following:

bugprone-suspicious-memset-usage

This diagnostic finds `memset` calls with mistakes in their arguments.

It triggers exactly once in Chromium (in V8 in particular):

`memset(&heap_stats, 0xBADC0DE, sizeof(heap_stats));`

Here, the fill value of 0xBADC0DE is meant to be an easy-to-recognize value on the stack... however, memset converts its second argument to an unsigned char before using it, and this value is outside that range, so this value won't be found on the stack in practice.

Given that it only triggers once but seems to have found a real bug when it triggered, I think we should enable this.

bugprone-terminating-continue

This diagnostic detects do while loops with a condition that always evalutes to false that have a continue statement.  These continues break the loop, which is either a bug or should be a `break` for legibility.

It triggers six times in Chromium and all these are in swiftshader.  (Example, example.)

These sites all looked like they would in fact be better as `break`s / were not false positives so this seems useful.

The CL for these changes are here & I welcome any feedback.  Thanks!

Elly

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Apr 24, 2025, 10:57:38 PMApr 24
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I agree with enabling both of these.

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Avi Drissman

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Apr 25, 2025, 1:04:47 AMApr 25
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Dan Sinclair

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Apr 25, 2025, 2:39:13 AMApr 25
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Hi Julia,

I've given you edit access to the original tracking doc if you'd like to update it as you progress. There were a number of checks which were sent to the mailing list for approval and some moved forward, then we got pulled into other things and stopped push forward. It would be awesome to see this progress.

Thanks,
dan


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