diff options
| author | Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk> | 2010-06-06 17:15:03 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-06-12 00:00:29 +0200 |
| commit | 51169c801518bf0a250f208362593e7250e7d2c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 39a315040e38eb926bcf94ae783a220281a04bdd /scripts | |
| parent | e228b1e6513b43b837ceff7256ae02e9ada619fa (diff) | |
| download | lwn-51169c801518bf0a250f208362593e7250e7d2c1.tar.gz lwn-51169c801518bf0a250f208362593e7250e7d2c1.zip | |
Add scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci | 67 |
1 files changed, 67 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7d4771d449c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +/// +/// Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless +/// as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. +/// +// Confidence: High +// Copyright: 2009,2010 Nicolas Palix, DIKU. GPLv2. +// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ +// Options: -no_includes -include_headers +// +// Keywords: kmalloc, kzalloc, kcalloc +// Version min: < 2.6.12 kmalloc +// Version min: < 2.6.12 kcalloc +// Version min: 2.6.14 kzalloc +// + +virtual context +virtual patch +virtual org +virtual report + +//---------------------------------------------------------- +// For context mode +//---------------------------------------------------------- + +@depends on context@ +type T; +@@ + +* (T *) + \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...) + +//---------------------------------------------------------- +// For patch mode +//---------------------------------------------------------- + +@depends on patch@ +type T; +@@ + +- (T *) + \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...) + +//---------------------------------------------------------- +// For org and report mode +//---------------------------------------------------------- + +@r depends on org || report@ +type T; +position p; +@@ + + (T@p *)\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...) + +@script:python depends on org@ +p << r.p; +t << r.T; +@@ + +coccilib.org.print_safe_todo(p[0], t) + +@script:python depends on report@ +p << r.p; +t << r.T; +@@ + +msg="WARNING: casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (%s *) is useless." % (t) +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg) |