linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: reduce false positives

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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:16:10 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: reduce false positives

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:06:35PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Here are the results that are eliminated by my change:
> 
> drivers/clk/axs10x/pll_clock.c:323:1-6 kfree(pll_clk);
> drivers/clk/clk-gpio.c:131:2-7 kfree(clk_gpio);
> drivers/clk/clk-hsdk-pll.c:410:1-6 kfree(pll_clk);
> drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk.c:97:1-6 kfree(clk_data);
> drivers/mfd/syscon.c:130:1-8 iounmap(base);
> drivers/mfd/syscon.c:132:1-6 kfree(syscon);
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-mxs.c:139:2-7 kfree(group);
> drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos5440.c:264:1-6 kfree(gname);
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_debugfs.c:248:1-6 kfree(msg);
> drivers/pwm/pwm-lp3943.c:56:3-8 kfree(pwm_map);
> 
> The semantic patch is pretty naive in that it assumes that all uses of the
> same name point to the same thing.
> 

Huh...  It leads to false positives but it is an easier way to do cross
function analysis.  I had wondered about that.

regards,
dan carpenter