github/codeql-coding-standards

This repository contains CodeQL queries and libraries which support various Coding Standards.

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Forks: 82
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Indexed issues: 116
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Merged PRs (30d): 9

Dominant language: CodeQL
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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`A7-1-7`: Exclude expression statements in macros Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#629 · Opened Jun 26, 2024
`A5-16-1`: Ternary operator not used as a sub expression Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#612 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2024
`A7-1-2`: `constexpr` in templates Open

Difficulty-High false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#609 · Opened Jun 3, 2024
`M0-1-2` - `A3-1-5` - `A4-5-1` - `M0-1-1` : Poor lambda support Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#605 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 2, 2024
`A15-1-3`: Detection of duplicated exceptions on function templates Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#603 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2024
`A4-7-1`: Guard using "." operator getting ignored Open

Difficulty-High false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#600 · Opened Jun 1, 2024
Feature Request: Time out long running queries Open

enhancement

github/codeql-coding-standards#594 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 22, 2024
Feature Request: Make deviations feature work on custom CodeQL queries as well. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#589 · Opened May 14, 2024
`A2-10-1`: False positive around null identifiers on tuple-like types in structural binding (relevant C++17 only) Open

C++17 Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR wontfix

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#581 · Opened May 7, 2024
`STR34-C`: Rule improvements Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-High Standard-CERT-C

github/codeql-coding-standards#577 · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2024
`RULE-21-15`: Improve detection of compatible types Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-MISRA-C

github/codeql-coding-standards#573 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 25, 2024
`A3-9-1`: Incorrectly alerts on template functions instantiated with fix-width integers Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#540 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 21, 2024
Add compliance for MISRA C++ 2023 Open

Stardard-MISRA-C++

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#539 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 20, 2024
`A2-7-3`: template function prototypes with comments are not correctly detected Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-High Phase III Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#528 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 9, 2024
A13-3-1: reconsider precision and feasibility of rule exception Open

Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#524 · Opened Feb 7, 2024
A5-0-2 Improve testcase Open

Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#523 · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Use QL for QL to check for omissions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#522 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2024
Missing attestations: @knewbury01 Open

github/codeql-coding-standards#506 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Missing attestations: @mbaluda Open

github/codeql-coding-standards#505 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Missing attestations: @kraiouchkine Open

github/codeql-coding-standards#503 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Missing attestations: @jsinglet Open

github/codeql-coding-standards#502 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Missing attestations: @lcartey Open

github/codeql-coding-standards#501 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2024
`DCL30-C`: Replace implementation with cpp/return-stack-allocated-memory Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-Medium Standard-CERT-C

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#495 · Opened Jan 19, 2024
`A5-6-1`: Replace with INT33-C implementation Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-High Standard-AUTOSAR

github/codeql-coding-standards#492 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 17, 2024
`A4-7-1`: Incorporate CERT C integer data loss rules Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-High Standard-AUTOSAR

github/codeql-coding-standards#491 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Deprecate `update-release-status.yml` workflow Open

enhancement release-process

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#476 · Opened Dec 11, 2023
Deprecate `update-check-run.yml` Open

enhancement release-process

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#475 · Opened Dec 11, 2023
Release Artifacts No Longer Showing Version in Artifact Name Open

bug release-process

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#474 · Opened Dec 11, 2023
`A8-5-2`: Create query to cover `auto` case Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#463 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 30, 2023
`CON54-CPP`: Consider `wait`/`wait_until`/`wait_for`s `stop_waiting` parameter in lieu of loop Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-Low Stardard-CERT-C++ user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#430 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 10, 2023
`A16-2-2`: Consider `TypeMention`s for useless includes Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#422 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 3, 2023
`MEM53-CPP`: False positive due to flow through `realloc` Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-Low Stardard-CERT-C++

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#420 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2023
Deviations: consider allowing the deviation comment to occur on either the first or last line. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#405 · Opened Oct 6, 2023
`A5-0-2`: Allow deviations on the first line of a loop Open

enhancement Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#403 · Opened Oct 6, 2023
`A8-4-9`: Some template functions report variables as not used when they are Open

Difficulty-High false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#401 · Opened Oct 6, 2023
`A2-7-3`: Certain `using` declarations are wrongly considered undocumented. Open

Difficulty-High false positive/false negative Impact-Low Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#398 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 5, 2023
`EXP52-CPP`: Exclude uses of operators with unevaluated operands in already unevaluated contexts Open

Difficulty-Low false positive/false negative Impact-High Stardard-CERT-C++ user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#369 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 2, 2023
`M5-0-2`: triggers on expressions with no dependence on precedence rules Open

enhancement Standard-AUTOSAR user-report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#364 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 28, 2023
Enhancement: add support for suppressing multiple types of CodeQL alerts on the same line Open

enhancement user-report

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#327 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2023
Enhancement: add support for suppressing CodeQL alerts on the next line Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#326 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 18, 2023
`RULE-8-7`: Rule title incomplete Open

Standard-MISRA-C

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#316 · Opened Jun 28, 2023
`DCL60-CPP`: no alerts reported Open

Difficulty-High Impact-Low Stardard-CERT-C++ test-improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#310 · 2 comments · Opened May 22, 2023
Deviation code identifier and expanded macro elements Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#307 · Opened May 16, 2023
`ARR32-C`: Improve alert message and links Open

enhancement Standard-CERT-C

github/codeql-coding-standards#279 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 29, 2023
Unify the 3 queries from rules M0-2-1 and RULE-19-1 Open

enhancement Standard-AUTOSAR

github/codeql-coding-standards#273 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 27, 2023
`M14-6-1`: enhancement to cover types Open

Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#221 · Opened Mar 2, 2023
Enhancement to DCL39-C and DCL55-CPP Open

Difficulty-High enhancement Standard-CERT-C Stardard-CERT-C++

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#175 · Opened Jan 27, 2023
`A8-2-1`: query not implemented Open

Difficulty-High Impact-Medium Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#162 · Opened Jan 11, 2023
`A7-1-8`: Query not implemented Open

false positive/false negative Standard-AUTOSAR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/codeql-coding-standards#161 · Opened Jan 11, 2023
`A15-4-2`: Ignore elided calls when calculating the exception graph Open

Difficulty-Medium false positive/false negative Impact-High Standard-AUTOSAR top-25-fps user-report

github/codeql-coding-standards#158 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 6, 2023

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