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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
	Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function "kmem_cache_alloc" from SmPL rules
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:27:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802011125460.3135@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22276745-4723-4391-4460-07f0820ae85b@users.sourceforge.net>



On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> The function "kmem_cache_alloc" was specified despite of the technical
> >> detail that this function does not get a parameter passed which would
> >> correspond to such a size information.
> >>
> >> Thus remove it from the first two SmPL rules and omit the rule "r4".
> >
> > Nack.
>
> I find such a rejection surprising once more.
>
>
> > It should be supported by the size determined in another way.
>
> I am curious on how our different views could be clarified further
> for this special software situation.
>
> * Do we agree that a proper size determination is essential for every
>   condition in the discussed SmPL rules together with forwarding
>   this information?

No.  I don't mind a few false positives.  The user can look at the answer
and see if it is a false positive or not.

Furthermore, I told you how to address this function so that the size
issue would be taken care of.  That is the patch that I would accept.

>
> * How can a name be ever relevant (within the published SmPL approach)
>   for a function when it was designed in the way that it should generally
>   work without a size parameter?

No idea what this means.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-26 21:40 [PATCH v2] Coccinelle: kzalloc-simple: Add all zero allocating functions Himanshu Jha
2017-12-26 21:52 ` Julia Lawall
2017-12-29 17:22 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-12-29 17:49   ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-02 14:25   ` Rename the SmPL script “kzalloc-….cocci”? SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-02 14:28     ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-02 14:38       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-02 14:43         ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-02 15:00           ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-08  9:55           ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 11:55       ` [PATCH] Coccinelle: Rename the script for a transformation of memory allocations SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:02         ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:13           ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:17             ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:31               ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-03 12:40                 ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-03 12:45                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-04  8:36                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-04  8:54                     ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-04  9:43                       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-17 16:47   ` [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Safer transformations with SmPL SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-19 16:14   ` Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consequences from the usage of at signs in Python strings SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-19 16:18     ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-19 16:43       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-24  8:41       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-31 17:28   ` [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function “kmem_cache_alloc” from SmPL rules SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-31 17:38     ` Julia Lawall
2018-01-31 17:53       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-01  9:35   ` [PATCH] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function "kmem_cache_alloc" " SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-01  9:40     ` Julia Lawall
2018-02-01 10:17       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-01 10:27         ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2018-02-01 11:00           ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-03  7:22           ` Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consistency for " SF Markus Elfring

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