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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes()
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 13:45:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07f2cb49-662f-590f-acf6-686f8432015d@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3eea073a-b271-54b7-1eec-e841e0f4bdf9@redhat.com>

>> Would the following script (for the semantic patch language)
>> be useful enough for further development considerations?
>>
>> usage_of_kmalloc_array1-excerpt2.cocci:
>> @replacement2@
>> expression count, pointer, target;
>> @@
>>  target =
>> -         kmalloc(sizeof(*pointer) * (count)
>> +         kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*pointer)
>>                         , ...);
> 
> Why don't you include the _exact_ script that you run?

I showed only the "excerpt" above because of the current situation
that this single SmPL rule triggered the software change
which I suggested for the referenced source file.

How do you think about to try a command out like the following
also in your development (or test) environment?

elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Linux/next-patched> spatch.opt ~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor/usage_of_kmalloc_array1-excerpt2.cocci arch/x86/kernel/ksysfs.c


Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-07 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-04 20:23 [PATCH] x86-ksysfs: Use kmalloc_array() in create_setup_data_nodes() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-06 21:49 ` Kees Cook
2016-09-07  7:49   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-07 10:36     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-07 11:17       ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-07 11:20         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-07 11:45           ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-09-07 16:23             ` Kees Cook
2016-09-07 16:37               ` Joe Perches
2016-09-07 17:01                 ` Kees Cook
2016-09-07 16:55               ` SF Markus Elfring

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