linux-kernel - Re: Coccinelle: semantic patch for missing of_node

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Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 11:33:03 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     wen.yang99@....com.cn, Markus.Elfring@....de,
        cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, michal.lkml@...kovi.net,
        nicolas.palix@...g.fr
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: semantic patch for missing of_node_put

Hi!

> A semantic patch has no access to comments.  The only thing I can see to
> do is to use python to interact with some external tools.  For example,
> you could write some code to collect the comments in a file and the lines
> on which they occur, and then get the comment that most closely precedes
> the start of the function.

How dangerous is missing of_node_put? AFAICT it will only result into
very small, one-time memory leak, right?

Could we make sure these patches are _not_ going to stable? Leaking
few bytes once per boot is not really a serious bug.
									Pavel

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