On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A patch on a topic like “[next] lkdtm: remove redundant initialization of ret”
> caught also my software development attention.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/14/265
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1088971/
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190614094311.24024-1-colin.king@canonical.com/
>
>
> I hoped that the following script for the semantic patch language can point
> such an update candidate also out.
>
> @display@
> binary operator bo;
> expression e1, e2, e3;
> identifier var, work;
> statement is, es;
> type t;
> @@
> *t var = e1;
>  ... when != if (var bo e2) is else es
> *var =
> (      work(...)
> |      e3
> )
>
>
> elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Linux/next-patched> spatch ~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor/show_questionable_variable_initialisation1.cocci drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
> …
> exn while in timeout_function
> Fatal error: exception Coccinelle_modules.Common.Impossible(56)
>
>
> How do you think about the software situation?

This problem is now fixed.  Thank you for the report.

julia