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

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Message-ID: <20190326084512.GC32590@kadam>
Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:45:12 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
        Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        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, Mar 23, 2019 at 09:06:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

The Fixes tag is not just about stable...  For example, we use them for
statistics to see how quickly bugs get fixed etc.

regards,
dan carpenter