linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Coccinelle: kzalloc-simple: Add all zero allocating functions

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Date:   Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:49:31 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
cc:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Coccinelle: kzalloc-simple: Add all zero allocating
 functions



On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> 2017-12-27 6:40 GMT+09:00 Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>:
> > There are many instances where memory is allocated using regular
> > allocator
> > functions immediately followed by setting the allocated memory
> > to 0 value using memset.
> >
> > We already have zero memory allocator functions to set the memory to
> > 0 value instead of manually setting it using memset.
> >
> > Therefore, use zero memory allocating functions instead of regular
> > memory allocators followed by memset 0 to remove redundant memset and
> > make the code more cleaner and also reduce the code size.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
> > ---
> >
> > v2:
> >    -fix typo in copyright.
> >    -move all the (T *) disjunction cases before (T) as (T) matches any cast
> >     at all including (T *) ones which is not desirable.
> >
>
> ...
>
> > +@...ipt:python depends on report@
> > +p << r9.p;
> > +x << r9.x;
> > +@@
> > +
> > +msg="WARNING: kvzalloc_node should be used for %s, instead of kvmalloc_node/memset" % (x)
> > +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)
> > +
>
>
> I removed the blank line at EOF,
> then applied to linux-kbuild/misc.  Thanks!

Thanks!

julia