Re: [PATCH v2] coccinelle: Check for missing NULL terminators in of_device_id tables

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 06/09/14 14:47, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 3.6.2014 20:25, Julia Lawall napsal(a):
>> From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>>
>> Failure to terminate an of_device_id table can lead to confusing
>> failures depending on where the compiler places the array. Add a
>> check to make sure these tables are terminated. Thanks to Mitchel
>> Humpherys for coming up with the pattern initially.
>>
>> Cc: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org>
>> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
>> Cc: Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
>> Cc: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
>> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
>> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> v3: Removed unneeded rule bad_of_table.  Placed * in context rule on the 
>> closing brace; putting it on the field caused all fields to be marked.
>>
>> v4: corrected authorship
>>
>>  scripts/coccinelle/misc/of_table.cocci |   62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
> Applied to kbuild.git#misc, thanks. BTW, what is so special about of
> device drivers? Shouldn't we check for missing sentinels in all kinds of
> device tables?
>

Yes the rule should probably be expanded to cover more tables. I guess
this is just more noticeable because a driver may match some device that
it isn't supposed to match and start writing random bits to registers it
shouldn't be, causing the system to hang.

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