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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs
    On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:

    > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:17:07 +0100 (CET), Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> wrote:
    > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
    > >
    > > > Hi Julia,
    > > >
    > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> wrote:
    > > > > Suggestions for how to make it easier to use or the documentation more
    > > > > understandable are welcome.
    > > >
    > > > The benefit of scripts/checkpatch.pl is that it doesn't require any
    > > > setting up to do. I'm personally less likely to use Coccinelle (and
    > > > Sparse for that matter) on boxes where the software is not installed.
    > > > I'm not sure how other people feel about it, but I'd personally love
    > > > to see tools/coccinelle and tools/sparse.
    > >
    > > This was discussed before, and it was felt that perhaps 75000 lines of
    > > ocaml code was not really appropriate for the Linux source tree, and also
    > > that it would too much complicate our development process.
    > >
    > > One reason for using multiple machines would be to work on multiple
    > > architectures. But Coccinelle is not sensitive to the architecture on
    > > which it is run, so perhaps you do't need to have it installed everywhere.
    > >
    > > > As for something more concrete, I guess this is what I'm mostly interested in:
    > > >
    > > > penberg@jaguar:~/src/linux$ make C=1 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck" mm/slub.o
    > > >
    > > > I guess it'd be good to document that for 'make help' because now you
    > > > need to dig through Documentation/coccinelle.txt to find it.
    > >
    > > OK, thanks. We will look into that.
    > >
    > > > P.S. It seems there's a bug somewhere because the above command fails
    > > > miserably for me:
    > > >
    > > > CHK include/linux/version.h
    > > > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
    > > > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    > > > CHECK mm/slub.c
    > > > File "/home/penberg/src/linux/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci",
    > > > line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > > > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > > > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty
    > > > context: <+...")
    > > > File "/home/penberg/src/linux/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci",
    > > > line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > > > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > > > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty
    > > > context: <+...")
    > > > File "/home/penberg/src/linux/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci",
    > > > line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > > > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > > > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty
    > > > context: <+...")
    > > > File "/home/penberg/src/linux/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci",
    > > > line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > > > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > > > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty
    > > > context: <+...")
    > > > make[1]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1
    > > > make: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 2
    > > >
    > > > penberg@jaguar:~/src/linux$ dpkg -l|grep coccinelle
    > > > ii coccinelle 0.2.2.deb-2
    > > > semantic patching tool for C
    > > >
    > > > [ I'm on Ubuntu 10.10. ]
    > >
    > > Indeed that one seems to be quite out of date. You can get the most
    > > recent version here: https://launchpad.net/~npalix/+archive/coccinelle
    >
    > I never got a working version of coccinelle with scripts in the kernel.
    > Even the ppa version doesn't work for me.
    >
    > make C=2 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck fs/namei.o
    > ...
    > ....
    > CHECK scripts/mod/empty.c
    > File "/home/opensource/sources/kernels/linux-2.6/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci", line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty context: <+...")
    > File "/home/opensource/sources/kernels/linux-2.6/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci", line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty context: <+...")
    > File "/home/opensource/sources/kernels/linux-2.6/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci", line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty context: <+...")
    > File "/home/opensource/sources/kernels/linux-2.6/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci", line 32, column 5, charpos = 747
    > around = '<+...', whole content = - <+... when != goto l2;
    > Fatal error: exception Lexer_cocci.Lexical("invalid in a nonempty context: <+...")

    That's quite strange. Could you check that you are using the ppa version
    and not the old version? spatch -version should give you 0.2.5-rc8

    julia


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