linux-kernel - Re: Coccinelle: reduce false positives

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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:28:40 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: reduce false positives

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> +|
> + x = kvasprintf(...)
…

* How do you think about to reduce also a bit of duplicate SmPL code?

* Can it help to work with nested SmPL disjunctions here?

Regards,
Markus