Add a semantic patch for using ALLOC_ARRAY to allocate arrays and apply the transformation on the current source tree. The macro checks for multiplication overflow and infers the element size automatically; the result is shorter and safer code. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci | 16 ++++++++++++++++ worktree.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci index 2d7f25d99f..4ba98b7eaf 100644 --- a/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci +++ b/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci @@ -24,3 +24,19 @@ expression n; @@ - memcpy(dst, src, n * sizeof(T)); + COPY_ARRAY(dst, src, n); + +@@ +type T; +T *ptr; +expression n; +@@ +- ptr = xmalloc(n * sizeof(*ptr)); ++ ALLOC_ARRAY(ptr, n); + +@@ +type T; +T *ptr; +expression n; +@@ +- ptr = xmalloc(n * sizeof(T)); ++ ALLOC_ARRAY(ptr, n); diff --git a/worktree.c b/worktree.c index d633761575..d7b911aac7 100644 --- a/worktree.c +++ b/worktree.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ struct worktree **get_worktrees(unsigned flags) struct dirent *d; int counter = 0, alloc = 2; - list = xmalloc(alloc * sizeof(struct worktree *)); + ALLOC_ARRAY(list, alloc); list[counter++] = get_main_worktree(); -- 2.12.0