From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Derrick Stolee" <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocci
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:38:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82a385c3-62fe-e471-73ae-0c0448640f3b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180430093153.13040-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On 4/30/2018 5:31 AM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> The semantic patch 'contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci' added in
> 2e27bd7731 (treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methods,
> 2018-04-06) is supposed to "ensure that all references to the
> 'maybe_tree' member of struct commit are either mutations or accesses
> through get_commit_tree()". So get_commit_tree() clearly must be able
> to directly access the 'maybe_tree' member, and 'commit.cocci' has a
> bit of a roundabout workaround to ensure that get_commit_tree()'s
> direct access in its return statement is not transformed: after all
> references to 'maybe_tree' have been transformed to a call to
> get_commit_tree(), including the reference in get_commit_tree()
> itself, the last rule transforms back a 'return get_commit_tree()'
> statement, back then found only in get_commit_tree() itself, to a
> direct access.
>
> Unfortunately, already the very next commit shows that this workaround
> is insufficient: 7b8a21dba1 (commit-graph: lazy-load trees for
> commits, 2018-04-06) extends get_commit_tree() with a condition
> directly accessing the 'maybe_tree' member, and Coccinelle with
> 'commit.cocci' promptly detects it and suggests a transformation to
> avoid it. This transformation is clearly wrong, because calling
> get_commit_tree() to access 'maybe_tree' _in_ get_commit_tree() would
> obviously lead to recursion. Furthermore, the same commit added
> another, more specialized getter function get_commit_tree_in_graph(),
> whose legitimate direct access to 'maybe_tree' triggers a similar
> wrong transformation suggestion.
Thanks for catching this, Szeder. Sorry for the noise.
> Exclude both of these getter functions from the general rule in
> 'commit.cocci' that matches their direct accesses to 'maybe_tree'.
> Also exclude load_tree_for_commit(), which, as static helper funcion
> of get_commit_tree_in_graph(), has legitimate direct access to
> 'maybe_tree' as well.
This is an interesting feature of Coccinelle. Happy to learn it.
> The last rule transforming back 'return get_commit_tree()' statements
> to direct accesses thus became unnecessary, remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
I applied this locally on 'next' and ran the check. I succeeded with no
changes.
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> ---
> contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci | 10 ++++------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci
> index ac38525941..a7e9215ffc 100644
> --- a/contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci
> +++ b/contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci
> @@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ expression c;
> - c->maybe_tree->object.oid.hash
> + get_commit_tree_oid(c)->hash
>
> +// These excluded functions must access c->maybe_tree direcly.
> @@
> +identifier f !~ "^(get_commit_tree|get_commit_tree_in_graph|load_tree_for_commit)$";
> expression c;
> @@
> + f(...) {...
> - c->maybe_tree
> + get_commit_tree(c)
> + ...}
>
> @@
> expression c;
> @@ -22,9 +26,3 @@ expression s;
> @@
> - get_commit_tree(c) = s
> + c->maybe_tree = s
> -
> -@@
> -expression c;
> -@@
> -- return get_commit_tree(c);
> -+ return c->maybe_tree;
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2018-04-30 9:31 [PATCH] coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocci SZEDER Gábor
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