linux-kernel - Re: [patch] nvme-fabrics: correct some printk information

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Message-ID: <1481403290.1764.1.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:54:50 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] nvme-fabrics: correct some printk information

On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 21:06 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 03:27:50AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 12:06 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > We really don't care where "ctrl" is on the stack since we're just
> > > > returning soon what we want is the actual ctrl pointer itself.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c
> > > 
> > > []
> > > > @@ -2402,7 +2402,7 @@ enum blk_eh_timer_return
> > > > 
> > > >  	dev_info(ctrl->ctrl.device,
> > > >  		"NVME-FC{%d}: new ctrl: NQN \"%s\" (%p)\n",
> > > > -		ctrl->cnum, ctrl->ctrl.opts->subsysnqn, &ctrl);
> > > > +		ctrl->cnum, ctrl->ctrl.opts->subsysnqn, ctrl);
> > > 
> > > Found by script or inspection?
> > > 
> > > If by script, it seems unlikely there's only 1 instance
> > > where an address of an automatic pointer type is used
> > > incorrectly.
> > 
> > Script.  But it's using a pretty specific heuristic where we kmalloc a
> > pointer and then pass the address.  It prints few warnings.  Probably
> > 40% false positives, but the remaining examples of course are 100% false
> > positives.
> 
> I tried anything that looks like a print, ie has a format string argument,
> and was taking the address of a local variable as another argument.  But
> there are lots of weird format designators in the kernel that Coccinelle
> doesn't know about for which passing the address of a local variable is
> reasonable.  So for the moment, there are, as far as I can see, just a lot
> of false positives.  I did add improving the support for format strings to
> my TODO list.

I think there's probably a class of defects that could
be found something like this in coccinelle:

@@
type T;
T *t;
@@

* \(netdev_emerg\|netdev_crit\|netdev_alert\|netdev_err\|netdev_notice\|netdev_warn\|netdev_warn\|netdev_info\|netdev_dbg\|dev_emerg\|dev_crit\|dev_alert\|dev_err\|dev_notice\|dev_warn\|dev_warn\|dev_info\|dev_dbg\|pr_emerg\|pr_crit\|pr_alert\|pr_err\|pr_notice\|pr_warn\|pr_warning\|pr_warn\|pr_info\|pr_debug\|printk\|vsprintf\|vscnprintf\|vsprintf\)(..., &t, ...);

This finds a few like:

diff -u -p drivers//dma/pxa_dma.c /tmp/nothing//dma/pxa_dma.c
--- drivers//dma/pxa_dma.c
+++ /tmp/nothing//dma/pxa_dma.c
@@ -640,9 +640,6 @@ static unsigned int clear_chan_irq(struc
 	dcsr = phy_readl_relaxed(phy, DCSR);
 	phy_writel(phy, dcsr, DCSR);
 	if ((dcsr & PXA_DCSR_BUSERR) && (phy->vchan))
-		dev_warn(&phy->vchan->vc.chan.dev->device,
-			 "%s(chan=%p): PXA_DCSR_BUSERR\n",
-			 __func__, &phy->vchan);
 
 	return dcsr & ~PXA_DCSR_RUN;
 }

btw:  It'd be nice if coccinelle could use multiple nested "\("