From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [v2] Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Delete function “kmem_cache_alloc” from SmPL rules
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f182b411-d378-56dd-1ab5-0e8f039d493e@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801311836320.3707@hadrien>
>> Will the rule set be more consistent then?
>
> If E1 is not bound by the kem_cache_alloc rule, then it will match anything.
How much was such a software behaviour intended by the discussed SmPL script?
> The user can check if it is appropriate.
How does such an information fit to expectations for safe source code analysis?
> Another option would be to use the type of the variable storing the result
> of the call to compute the expected size.
How would this suggestion help here?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-31 17:53 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 [this message]
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
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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