Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle : Script to detect cast after memory allocation

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 01:03 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Himangi.

> I have run the generic rule but it does not detect the cases of
> cast where the k[mzc]alloc or the kmem functions are used. I have used
> flags like recursive-includes, as suggested by Julia, but not any of the
> cases covered by the original script are detected.

Odd.

When I tried it I got things like:

$ cat void.cocci 
@@
void *t;
type other;
@@

-	(other *)t
+	t

$ spatch --version
spatch version 1.0.0-rc14 without Python support and with PCRE support

$ spatch --sp-file void.cocci --recursive-includes drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ /tmp/cocci-output-8427-7875f0-cciss_scsi.c
@@ -704,8 +704,7 @@ cciss_scsi_setup(ctlr_info_t *h)
 	struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t * shba;
 
 	ccissscsi[h->ctlr].ndevices = 0;
-	shba = (struct cciss_scsi_adapter_data_t *)
-		kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL);	
+	shba = kmalloc(sizeof(*shba), GFP_KERNEL);	
 	if (shba == NULL)
 		return;
 	shba->scsi_host = NULL;