If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
and not a meaningful structure. Thus this value should not be used after
the end of the iterator.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Since commit 1c6c69525b ("genirq: Reject bogus threaded irq requests") threaded
IRQs without a primary handler need to be requested with IRQF_ONESHOT, otherwise
the request will fail. This semantic patch will help to statically identify
(and fix) such cases.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
"The non-critical part of kbuild for 3.5 includes
- two new coccinelle checks
- fix for make deb-pkg to include generated headers in arch/*/include
I have more make-deb-pkg fixes in the backlog, but these will likely
have to wait for 3.6."
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
builddeb: include autogenerated header files
scripts/coccinelle: sizeof of pointer
scripts/coccinelle: address test is always true
Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
"The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to
merge things.
I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches. I've been
wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall
prospects for success of the project. But after speaking with Pavel
at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward
completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped
complaining" stage regarding the net changes. So I need to go back
and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion."
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches)
memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix
backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1
C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker
MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo
alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open()
libfs: add simple_open()
hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module
drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback
fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed
fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA
Find instances of an open-coded simple_open() and replace them with
calls to simple_open().
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch ensures that all semantic patches in the scripts/coccinelle
directory provide the report option. Report messages that include line
numbers now have the line number preceded by "line" for easier subsequent
processing.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
devm_ functions allocate memory that is to remain allocated until the
device is detached. This patch checks for freeing of such memory using
standard memory freeing functions.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
devm_ functions allocate memory that is to remain allocated until the
device is detached. This patch checks for opportunities for using the
function devm_request_and_ioremap.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
For doubleinit.cocci, Coccinelle 0.2.4 requires a comma after ... in a
field list. Coccinelle also now behaves gracefully when a definition is
provided for a virtual that doesn't exist, so there is no need for the
semantic patch code to check for this case.
Updated the documentation to reflect the fact that the best results will
now be obtained with Coccinelle version 0.2.4 or later.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Use new comment format to separate proposed commit message
and information about generated false positives
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find confusingly indented code in or after an if. An if branch should
be indented. The code following an if should not be indented.
Sometimes, code after an if that is indented is actually intended to be
part of the if branch.
This has a high rate of false positives, because Coccinelle's column
calculation does not distinguish between spaces and tabs, so code that
is not visually aligned may be considered to be in the same column.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find duplicate field initializations. This has a high rate of false
positives due to #ifdefs, which Coccinelle is not aware of in a structure
initialization.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
alloc contains various semantic patches related
to the allocation APIs
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Use kmemdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation
This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Use kstrdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find a use after free. Values of variables may imply that some
execution paths are not possible, resulting in false positives.
Another source of false positives are macros such as
SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_DEC that do not actually evaluate their argument
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
list_for_each_entry uses its first argument to get from one element of
the list to the next, so it is usually not a good idea to reassign it.
The first rule finds such a reassignment and the second rule checks
that there is a path from the reassignment back to the top of the loop.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Many iterators have the property that the first argument is always bound
to a real list element, never NULL. False positives arise for some
iterators that do not have this property, or in cases when the loop
cursor is reassigned. The latter should only happen when the matched
code is on the way to a loop exit (break, goto, or return).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
for_each_node iterators only exit normally when the loop cursor is
NULL, so there is no point to call of_node_put on the final value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find missing unlocks. This semantic match considers the specific case
where the unlock is missing from an if branch, and there is a lock
before the if and an unlock after the if. False positives are due to
cases where the if branch represents a case where the function is
supposed to exit with the lock held, or where there is some preceding
function call that releases the lock.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find double locks. False positives may occur when some paths cannot
occur at execution, due to the values of variables, and when there is
an intervening function call that releases the lock.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Find functions that refer to GFP_KERNEL but are called with locks held.
The proposed change of converting the GFP_KERNEL is not necessarily the
correct one. It may be desired to unlock the lock, or to not call the
function under the lock in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
deref_null.cocci is moved to the 'null' directory
which contains other null related rules.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This semantic patch looks for kmalloc etc that are not followed by a
NULL check. It only gives a report in the case where there is some
error handling code later in the function, which may be helpful
in determining what the error handling code for the call to kmalloc etc
should be.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The various basic memory allocation functions don't return ERR_PTR
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Add a Coccinelle file to identify the dereferences of NULL variables
This semantic patch identifies when a variable is known to be NULL
after a test, but it is still dereferenced later.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Add a Coccinelle file to use the ERR_CAST function
Before the release 2.6.25, one had to use ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(...)) to
convert the pointer type of an error. Since then, the function
ERR_CAST has been available for that purpose.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This semantic patch replaces explicit computations
of resource size by a call to resource_size.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This semantic patch replaces a pair of calls to kmalloc and memset
by a single call to kzalloc.
It only looks for simple cases to avoid false positives.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The purpose of this semantic patch is to remove
useless casts, as mentioned in the Linux documentation.
See Chapter 14 in Documentation/CodingStyle for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
