linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: sirf: Simplify a test

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:18:04 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     baohua@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, jslaby@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: sirf: Simplify a test

Le 07/11/2016 à 14:50, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 8:03:33 AM CET Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> 'dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic()' does not return an error pointer, so the test
>> can be simplified to be more consistent.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> The change looks correct in principle. It would be good to automate looking
> for other instances of this bug. How did you find it? Do you have e.g. a
> coccinelle script or did you just stumble over the issue by accident?
Hi,

You can have an idea of the strategy used in this post:
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/1/388

Julia is currently working on a more complete strategy in order to find 
such issues.

In the meantime, if you want, I can send the coccinelle scripts used.

Best regards,
CJ