linux-kernel - Re: [v5] coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put

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Message-ID: <1691b160-5558-d4c3-afed-5773e115c5aa@web.de>
Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:17:46 +0100
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>,
        Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@...mail.com>,
        Cheng Shengyu <cheng.shengyu@....com.cn>,
        cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5] coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device()

> Applied to linux-kbuild.

A questionable development version was integrated for this SmPL script.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/scripts/coccinelle/free/put_device.cocci?id=da9cfb87a44da61f2403c4312916befcb6b6d7e8

https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/201902191014156680299@zte.com.cn/


Now I am curious on how such a source code analysis approach will be
improved further.
Which changes will get the desired acceptance?

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1053979/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1553321671-27749-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn/
https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2019-March/005679.html

Regards,
Markus