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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@hotmail.com>,
	Xue Zhihong <xue.zhihong@zte.com.cn>,
	Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Coccinelle: semantic patch for missing put_device()
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:52:21 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902132050200.2655@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c10e0bf1-4830-7ee4-5b21-70b521dd6c36@web.de>



On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > The of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the underlying device
> > structure, we should release that reference.
>
> I have got another concern for further software development considerations.
>
> How do you think about to describe here if it can be determined
> by source code analysis that the desired release should be performed
> only in the same function implementation (or not)?
>
> How much does this aspect influence the source code search confidence?
>
>
> > +    when != e1 = (T)id
> > +    when != e2 = &id->dev
> > +    when != e3 = get_device(&id->dev)
> > +    when != e4 = (T1)platform_get_drvdata(id)
>
> I have got another idea for a bit of software fine-tuning at such a place.
> I am unsure if it can become relevant to reduce the number of metavariables
> here by introducing a SmPL disjunction.
>
> +    when != ex = \( (T)id \| &id->dev \| get_device(&id->dev) \| (T1)platform_get_drvdata(id) \)

There is no need for the disjunction.  There is also no need for the
different variables.  Different variables are only needed when the when
conditions are on different ...s

julia

>
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-13  6:23 [PATCH v3] coccinelle: semantic patch for missing put_device() Wen Yang
2019-02-13 15:40 ` Markus Elfring
2019-02-13 18:29 ` [PATCH v3] Coccinelle: " Markus Elfring
2019-02-13 19:52   ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2019-02-14  8:13     ` [v3] " Markus Elfring

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