Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] scripts: add dummy report mode to add_namespace.cocci

From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	jeyu@kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] scripts: add dummy report mode to add_namespace.cocci
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 14:02:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8417ccd3-9964-3b8e-65e5-6140be0b28fd@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200806195704.GA2950037@kroah.com>

On 8/6/20 1:57 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 01:48:26PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 6/22/20 10:14 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> On 6/22/20 9:06 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:46:18AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>>> On 6/22/20 2:03 AM, Matthias Maennich wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 02:39:18PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/4/20 1:31 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Matthias Maennich wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When running `make coccicheck` in report mode using the
>>>>>>>>> add_namespace.cocci file, it will fail for files that contain
>>>>>>>>> MODULE_LICENSE. Those match the replacement precondition, but spatch
>>>>>>>>> errors out as virtual.ns is not set.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In order to fix that, add the virtual rule nsdeps and only
>>>>>>>>> do search and
>>>>>>>>> replace if that rule has been explicitly requested.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In order to make spatch happy in report mode, we also need a
>>>>>>>>> dummy rule,
>>>>>>>>> as otherwise it errors out with "No rules
>>>>>>>>> apply". Using a script:python
>>>>>>>>> rule appears unrelated and odd, but this is the shortest I
>>>>>>>>> could come up
>>>>>>>>> with.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Adjust scripts/nsdeps accordingly to set the nsdeps rule
>>>>>>>>> when run trough
>>>>>>>>> `make nsdeps`.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
>>>>>>>>> Fixes: c7c4e29fb5a4 ("scripts: add_namespace:
>>>>>>>>> Fix coccicheck failed")
>>>>>>>>> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
>>>>>>>>> Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
>>>>>>>>> Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
>>>>>>>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Shuah reported the problem to me, so you could add
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reported-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very cool. No errors with this patch. Thanks for fixing it
>>>>>>> quickly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am happy I could fix that and thanks for confirming. I assume your
>>>>>> Tested-by could be added?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is somebody willing to take this patch through their tree?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is that these go through kbuild git??
>>>>
>>>> If you want to take this, that's fine with me.  But as I had the
>>>> original file come through my tree, I can take it too.  It's up to you,
>>>> either is ok with me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Great. Please take this through your tree.
>>>
>>
>> Greg! Looks like this one didn't make it in. Can you pick this up?
> 
> I think this is 55c7549819e4 ("scripts: add dummy report mode to
> add_namespace.cocci") in Linus's tree right now, right?
> 

Yes. It is in Linux 5.9. I was looking in the wrong place on
Linux 5.8. :(

thanks,
-- Shuah

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