linux-kernel - Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2 4/4] coccinelle: api: add selfcheck for memdup

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:25:53 +0300
From:   Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2 4/4] coccinelle: api: add selfcheck for
 memdup_user rule


On 6/9/20 7:22 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Denis Efremov wrote:
> 
>> Check that the rule matches vmemdup_user implementation.
>> memdup_user is out of scope because we are not matching
>> kmalloc_track_caller() function.
> 
> Is this a bit over-enginered?

Last patch it's just a PoC. Patches 1-3 are independent from 4.

> More precisely, even if it is nice to check
> that the API definition has the expected behavior, does it make sense to
> do it in one case but not the other?

Yes, I also don't like it. However, I doubt that we need to match
kmalloc_track_caller.

Thanks,
Denis