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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  =?UTF-8?B?4oCca21lbV9jYWNoZV9hbGxvY
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:53:13 +0000	[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

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAK7LNAR27r4j4c1FCh_ObpMpBKXgSP6Vq3P=reA-JKoTji6Q1A@mail.gmail.com>
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 =?UTF-8?B?4oCca21lbV9jYWNoZV9hbGxvY SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-31 17:38   ` =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=5Bv2=5D_Coccinelle=3A_zalloc-simple=3A_Delete_function_=E2=80=9Ckmem=5Fcache=5Fallo 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" from SmPL rules 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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