On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
> * x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|devm_kmalloc\|devm_kzalloc\)(...)
I can name several you've missed right off the top of my head -
vmalloc, kvmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_zalloc, variants
with _trace slapped on, and that is not to mention the things like
get_free_page or
void *my_k3wl_alloc(u64 n) // 'cause all artificial limits suck, that's why
{
lots and lots of home-grown stats collection
some tracepoints thrown in just for fun
return kmalloc(n);
}
(and no, I'm not implying that net/sched folks had done anything of that
sort; I have seen that and worse in drivers, though)
> The * at the beginning of the line means to highlight what you are looking
> for, which is done by making a diff in which the highlighted line
> appears to be removed.
Umm... Does that cover return, BTW? Or something like
T *barf;
extern void foo(T *p);
foo(kmalloc(sizeof(*barf)));
> The limitation is the ability to figure out the type of x. If it is a
> local variable, Coccinelle should have no problem. If it is a structure
> field, it may be necessary to provide command line arguments like
>
> --all-includes --include-headers-for-types
>
> --all-includes means to try to find all include files that are mentioned
> in the .c file. The next stronger option is --recursive includes, which
> means include what all of the mentioned files include as well,
> recursively. This tends to cause a major performance hit, because a lot
> of code is being parsed. --include-headers-for-types heals a bit with
> that, as it only considers the header files when computing type
> information, and now when applying the rules.
>
> With respect to ifdefs around variable declarations and structure field
> declaration, in these cases Coccinelle considers that it cannot make the
> ifdef have an if-like control flow, and so if considers the #ifdef, #else
> and #endif to be comments. Thus it takes into account only the last type
> provided for a given variable.
[snip]
What about several variants of structure definition? Because ifdefs around
includes do occur in the wild...
