From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v6] coccinelle: api: add kvfree script
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 09:09:04 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2008020907220.2531@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3aea12cf-68dc-e140-936f-cfefb2adbc8f@web.de>
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:
> …
> > +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/api/kvfree.cocci
> …
> > +@choice@
> > +expression E, E1;
> > +position kok, vok;
> > +@@
> > +
> > +(
> …
> > +|
> > + E = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|krealloc\|kcalloc\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\|
> > + kmalloc_array\|kmalloc_array_node\|kcalloc_node\)(...)@kok
> > + ... when != E = E1
> > + when any
> > + if (\(!E\|E == NULL\)) {
> …
>
> Can the SmPL code exclusion specification be incomplete here?
>
> How do you think about to check also if the memory is passed to any function
> (or macro) calls before the shown detection of a null pointer?
It seems both extremely unlikely and not relevant to the question at hand.
Passing E to another function will not change the value of E itself.
Passing &E to another function could change E, but it would be very
unusual to do that, and doesn't seem worth checking for.
julia
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2020-08-02 7:09 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2020-06-05 20:42 [Cocci] [PATCH] " Denis Efremov
2020-07-31 21:00 ` [Cocci] [PATCH v6] " Denis Efremov
2020-08-02 20:24 ` Julia Lawall
2020-08-03 11:33 ` Denis Efremov
2020-08-03 12:18 ` Julia Lawall
2020-08-03 11:45 ` Denis Efremov
2020-08-03 12:12 ` Julia Lawall
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