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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1508220850440.2384@hadrien>
Date:	Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:54:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Kris Borer <kborer@...il.com>
cc:	Julia.Lawall@...6.fr, Gilles.Muller@...6.fr, nicolas.palix@...g.fr,
	mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [RFC v3] coccinelle: add style check for assignment in if

Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>

However, I think it would be better to remove the "BAD" rulle at the end.

julia


On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Kris Borer wrote:

> Add a semantic patch for fixing some cases of checkpatch.pl error:
>
> ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition
>
> Signed-off-by: Kris Borer <kborer@...il.com>
> ---
> Differences from Julia's version:
>  - removed some disjuction variations that led to improper transformations
>  - fixed header format
>  - added and updated comments
>  - reformatted some rules
>
>  scripts/coccinelle/style/assignment_in_if.cocci | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 140 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/style/assignment_in_if.cocci
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/style/assignment_in_if.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/style/assignment_in_if.cocci
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..57f692d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/style/assignment_in_if.cocci
> @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
> +/// move assignments out of if conditions
> +///
> +//# This script is designed to correct code where assignments exist in if
> +//# conditions. It is only capable of handling a subset of such problems.
> +//# Ideally it would handle all checkpatch errors of the following type:
> +//#	ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition
> +//#
> +//# For example:
> +//#	if(result = myfun())
> +//#
> +//# would become:
> +//#	result = myfun();
> +//#	if(result)
> +//
> +// Confidence: Moderate
> +// Copyright: (C) 2015 Kris Borer.  GPLv2.
> +// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
> +// Comments:
> +// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
> +
> +virtual patch
> +
> +
> +// if ( (ret = call()) )
> +// if ( (ret = call()) < 0 )
> +@if1@
> +expression i;
> +expression E, E2;
> +statement S1, S2;
> +binary operator b;
> +@@
> +
> ++ i = E;
> +  if (
> +(
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +|
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +  b ...
> +|
> +- (i = E),
> +  E2
> +)
> +  ) S1 else S2
> +
> +
> +// if ( ptr->fun && (ret = ptr->fun()) )
> +@if2@
> +expression i2;
> +expression E1, E2;
> +@@
> +
> ++ if( E1 ) {
> ++       i2 = E2;
> ++       if (i2) {
> +- if( E1 && (i2 = E2) ) {
> +  ...
> +- }
> ++       }
> ++ }
> +
> +
> +// if ( ptr->fun && (ret = ptr->fun()) < 0 )
> +@if3@
> +expression i2;
> +expression E1, E2;
> +constant c;
> +binary operator b;
> +@@
> +
> ++ if( E1 ) {
> ++       i2 = E2;
> ++       if (i2 b c) {
> +- if( E1 && ((i2 = E2) b c) ) {
> +  ...
> +- }
> ++       }
> ++ }
> +
> +
> +// if ( (ret = call()) && ret != -1 )
> +// if ( (ret = call()) < 0 && ret != -1 )
> +@if4@
> +expression i;
> +expression E, E2;
> +statement S1, S2;
> +binary operator b;
> +@@
> +
> ++ i = E;
> +  if (
> +(
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +|
> +  (
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +  b
> +  ...)
> +)
> +  && E2 ) S1 else S2
> +
> +
> +// if ( (ret = call()) && ret != -1 && ret != -2 )
> +// if ( (ret = call()) < 0 && ret != -1 && ret != -2 )
> +@if5@
> +expression i;
> +expression E, E2, E3;
> +statement S1, S2;
> +binary operator b;
> +@@
> +
> ++ i = E;
> +  if (
> +(
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +|
> +  (
> +- (i = E)
> ++ i
> +  b
> +  ...)
> +)
> +  && E2 && E3 ) S1 else S2
> +
> +
> +// warn about any assignments that were missed
> +@if6@
> +expression i,e;
> +statement S1,S2;
> +@@
> +
> +  if (<+...
> +- i = e
> ++ BAD
> +  ...+>) S1 else S2
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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