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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:14:11 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
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Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ice: Fix freeing uninitialized pointers
>> How do you think about to reduce the scope for the affected local variable instead
>> with the help of a small script (like the following) for the semantic patch language?
>>
>> @movement@
>> attribute name __free;
>> @@
>> -u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree);
>> int i;
>> ... when any
>> if (ice_fltr_add_mac(test_vsi, ...))
>> { ... }
>> +
>> +{
>> +u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree) = NULL;
>> if (ice_lbtest_create_frame(pf, &tx_frame, ...))
>> { ... }
>> ... when any
>> +}
>> +
>> valid_frames = ice_lbtest_receive_frames(...);
>
> I believe you don't understand what the scope of the above can be.
Will the understanding improve for the proposed source code transformation?
Regards,
Markus
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