Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:33:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] scripts/coccinelle/free: add conditional kfree test |
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 21:43 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote: > > This patch adds a trivial script warning on > > > > if(foo) > > kfree(foo) > > > > (based on checkpatch) > [] > > diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/free/cond_kfree.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/free/cond_kfree.cocci > [] > > +* if (E) > > +* kfree@p(E); > > You should probably add all of the unnecessary > conditional tests that checkpatch uses: > > kfree > usb_free_urb > debugfs_remove > debugfs_remove_recursive
Personally, I would prefer that the message encourage the user to consider whether it is necessary to call these functions with NULL as an argument in any case.
julia
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