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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: Delete NULL test before freeing functions?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:45:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AFEE55.7080906@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406282326010.2022@localhost6.localdomain6>

>> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000676.html
>> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=139405971927100&w=2
> Regular expressions do not allow taking advantage of the optimizations 
> provided by Coccinelle and are not easy for a reader to understand.

I find that the application of regexes is appropriate here.
Would you like to optimise any implementation details from my general
approach?


>> https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2014-March/000677.html
>> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=139405983727148&w=2
> This is not safe due to the use of when any.  You have no guarantee that 
> there is not a dereference of input in the matched region, or that the 
> value of input is still the argument value at the point of the test.

Do you suggest to make the desired detection of input parameter
validation a bit safer?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-29 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-28  8:47 [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: add NULL test before freeing functions Fabian Frederick
2014-06-28  9:08 ` [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: Delete NULL test before freeing functions? SF Markus Elfring
2014-06-28 10:00   ` Fabian Frederick
2014-06-28 11:38     ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-06-28 12:01       ` Fabian Frederick
2014-06-28 21:00         ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-06-28 21:28           ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2014-06-29 10:45             ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2014-06-29  8:27           ` Fabian Frederick
2014-06-29 11:00             ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-06-28 18:32   ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2014-06-28 17:55 ` [PATCH V3] scripts/coccinelle/free: add NULL test before freeing functions Julia Lawall
2014-06-28 17:58   ` Julia Lawall

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