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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 18:24:26 +0200
From:	Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...u.dk, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Add scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci

This semantic patch replaces a pair of calls to kmalloc and memset
by a single call to kzalloc.

It only looks for simple cases to avoid false positives.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@...u.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
---
 scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci |   83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci

diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b099fea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/kzalloc-simple.cocci
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+///
+/// kzalloc should be used rather than kmalloc followed by memset 0
+///
+// Confidence: High
+// Copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Julia Lawall, Nicolas Palix, DIKU.  GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2009-2010 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6.  GPLv2.
+// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/rules/kzalloc.html
+// Options: -no_includes -include_headers
+//
+// Keywords: kmalloc, kzalloc
+// Version min: < 12 kmalloc
+// Version min:   14 kzalloc
+// Version max: *
+//
+
+virtual context
+virtual patch
+virtual org
+virtual report
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+//  For context mode
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@...ends on context@
+type T, T2;
+expression x;
+expression E1,E2;
+statement S;
+@@
+
+* x = (T)kmalloc(E1,E2);
+  if ((x==NULL) || ...) S
+* memset((T2)x,0,E1);
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+//  For patch mode
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@...ends on patch@
+type T, T2;
+expression x;
+expression E1,E2;
+statement S;
+@@
+
+- x = (T)kmalloc(E1,E2);
++ x = kzalloc(E1,E2);
+  if ((x==NULL) || ...) S
+- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+//  For org mode
+//----------------------------------------------------------
+
+@r depends on org || report@
+type T, T2;
+expression x;
+expression E1,E2;
+statement S;
+position p;
+@@
+
+ x = (T)kmalloc@p(E1,E2);
+ if ((x==NULL) || ...) S
+ memset((T2)x,0,E1);
+
+@...ipt:python depends on org@
+p << r.p;
+x << r.x;
+@@
+
+msg="%s" % (x)
+msg_safe=msg.replace("[","@(").replace("]",")")
+coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], msg_safe)
+
+@...ipt:python depends on report@
+p << r.p;
+x << r.x;
+@@
+
+msg="WARNING: kzalloc should be used for %s, instead of kmalloc/memset" % (x)
+coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg_safe)
-- 
1.7.0.4

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