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

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Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:06:54 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
cc:     Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: put_device: reduce false positives

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > Don't complain about a return when this function returns "&pdev->dev".
>
> Would this information qualify to add the tag “Fixes” to the commit message?

Fixes tags relate to stable kernels, so that one can see which stable
kernels a particular patch should be propagated to.  There is no need to
propagate patches on semantic patches to stable kernels.  People who run
stable kernels are interested in their behavior, not the bug finding
rules that they contain.

julia