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# How to review a patch
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Some folks have said that they'd like to review patches more often, but they
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don't know how.
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So, here are a bunch of things to check for when reviewing a patch!
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Note that if you can't do every one of these, that doesn't mean you can't do
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a good review! Just make it clear what you checked for and what you didn't.
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## Top-level smell-checks
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(Difficulty: easy)
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- Does it compile with `--enable-fatal-warnings`?
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- Does `make check-spaces` pass?
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- Does `make check-changes` pass?
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- Does it have a reasonable amount of tests? Do they pass? Do they leak
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memory?
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- Do all the new functions, global variables, types, and structure members have
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documentation?
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- Do all the functions, global variables, types, and structure members with
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modified behavior have modified documentation?
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- Do all the new torrc options have documentation?
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- If this changes Tor's behavior on the wire, is there a design proposal?
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- If this changes anything in the code, is there a "changes" file?
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## Let's look at the code!
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- Does the code conform to `CodingStandards.md`?
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- Does the code leak memory?
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- If two or more pointers ever point to the same object, is it clear which
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pointer "owns" the object?
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- Are all allocated resources freed?
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- Are all pointers that should be const, const?
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- Are `#defines` used for 'magic' numbers?
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- Can you understand what the code is trying to do?
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- Can you convince yourself that the code really does that?
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- Is there duplicated code that could be turned into a function?
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## Let's look at the documentation!
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- Does the documentation conform to CodingStandards.txt?
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- Does it make sense?
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- Can you predict what the function will do from its documentation?
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## Let's think about security!
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- If there are any arrays, buffers, are you 100% sure that they cannot
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overflow?
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- If there is any integer math, can it overflow or underflow?
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- If there are any allocations, are you sure there are corresponding
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deallocations?
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- Is there a safer pattern that could be used in any case?
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- Have they used one of the Forbidden Functions?
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(Also see your favorite secure C programming guides.)
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