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From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] coccinelle: also catch kzfree() issues
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:02:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C38049.7090205@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1602161815190.2685@hadrien>

>>  @free@
>> +identifier kfree =~ "kz?free";
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  However, the regular expression is not such a
> good idea.

How much is such a SmPL constraint still usable then?


> Coccinelle doesn't make any optimizations based on regulat expressions.

Where can your software optimise the source code search?


> It would be better to put a disjunction with kfree and kzfree explicitly,
> as in the other cases.

What are the circumstances for corresponding benefits?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 17:01 [Cocci] [PATCH 0/3] coccinelle: catchup on memory allocation functions Yann Droneaud
2016-02-16 17:06 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 1/3] coccinelle: also catch kzfree() issues Yann Droneaud
2016-02-16 17:16   ` Julia Lawall
2016-02-16 20:02     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-02-16 20:17       ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2016-02-16 20:22         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-02-22 14:09     ` [Cocci] [PATCHv1 1/3] " Yann Droneaud
2016-02-22 14:20       ` Julia Lawall
2016-02-22 15:24         ` Yann Droneaud
2016-02-16 17:06 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 2/3] coccinelle: recognize more devm_* memory allocation functions Yann Droneaud
2016-02-16 17:18   ` Julia Lawall
2016-02-16 17:06 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 3/3] coccinelle: catch krealloc() on devm_*() allocated memory Yann Droneaud
2016-02-16 17:19   ` Julia Lawall

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