linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] arch/powerpc/kvm/e500

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Message-Id: <BF4777C1-E76A-4AEB-A87D-FC2CBB465F98@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2012 13:04:03 +0200
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c: fix error return code


On 05.08.2012, at 11:52, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Convert a 0 error return code to a negative one, as returned elsewhere in the
> function.
> 
> A new label is also added to avoid freeing things that are known to not yet
> be allocated.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds the first problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> identifier ret;
> expression e,e1,e2,e3,e4,x;
> @@
> 
> (
> if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\) || ...) { ... return ...; }
> |
> ret = 0
> )
> ... when != ret = e1
> *x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|devm_kzalloc\|ioremap\|ioremap_nocache\|devm_ioremap\|devm_ioremap_nocache\)(...);
> ... when != x = e2
>    when != ret = e3
> *if (x == NULL || ...)
> {
>  ... when != ret = e4
> *  return ret;
> }
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Thanks, applied to kvm-ppc-next.


Alex

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