When trying to obtain the MD5 of the Coverity Scan Tool (in order to
decide whether a cached version can be used or a new version has to be
downloaded), it is possible to get a 401 (Authorization required) due to
either an incorrect token, or even more likely due to an incorrect
Coverity project name.
Seeing an authorization failure that is caused by an incorrect project
name was somewhat surprising to me when developing the Coverity
workflow, as I found such a failure suggestive of an incorrect token
instead.
So let's provide a helpful error message about that specifically when
encountering authentication issues.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For completeness' sake, let's add support for submitting macOS builds to
Coverity Scan.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By adding the repository variable `ENABLE_COVERITY_SCAN_ON_OS` with a
value, say, `["windows-latest"]`, this GitHub workflow now runs on
Windows, allowing to analyze Windows-specific issues.
This allows, say, the Git for Windows fork to submit Windows builds to
Coverity Scan instead of Linux builds.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, the builds are submitted to the `git` project at
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/git.
The Git for Windows project would like to use this workflow, too,
though, and needs the builds to be submitted to the `git-for-windows`
Coverity project.
To that end, allow configuring the Coverity project name via the
repository variable, you guessed it, `COVERITY_PROJECT`. The default if
that variable is not configured or has an empty value is still `git`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It would add a 1GB+ download for every run, better cache it.
This is inspired by the GitHub Action `vapier/coverity-scan-action`,
however, it uses the finer-grained `restore`/`save` method to be able to
cache the Coverity Build Tool even if an unrelated step in the GitHub
workflow fails later on.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coverity is a static analysis tool that detects and generates reports on
various security and code quality issues.
It is particularly useful when diagnosing memory safety issues which may
be used as part of exploiting a security vulnerability.
Coverity's website provides a service that accepts "builds" (which
contains the object files generated during a standard build as well as a
database generated by Coverity's scan tool).
Let's add a GitHub workflow to automate all of this. To avoid running it
without appropriate Coverity configuration (e.g. the token required to
use Coverity's services), the job only runs when the repository variable
"ENABLE_COVERITY_SCAN_FOR_BRANCHES" has been configured accordingly (see
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/variables for
details how to configure repository variables): It is expected to be a
valid JSON array of branch strings, e.g. `["main", "next"]`.
In addition, this workflow requires two repository secrets:
- COVERITY_SCAN_EMAIL: the email to send the report to, and
- COVERITY_SCAN_TOKEN: the Coverity token (look in the Project Settings
tab of your Coverity project).
Note: The initial version of this patch used
`vapier/coverity-scan-action` to benefit from that Action's caching of
the Coverity tool, which is rather large. Sadly, that Action only
supports Linux, and we want to have the option of building on Windows,
too. Besides, in the meantime Coverity requires `cov-configure` to be
runantime, and that Action was not adjusted accordingly, i.e. it seems
not to be maintained actively. Therefore it would seem prudent to
implement the steps manually instead of using that Action.
Initial-patch-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
