> > +Strong points of Smatch and Coccinelle > > +-------------------------------------- > > + > > +Coccinelle is probably the easiest for writing checks. It works before the > > +pre-compiler so it's easier to check for bugs in macros using Coccinelle. > > +Coccinelle also writes patches fixes for you which no other tool does. > > + > > +With Coccinelle you can do a mass conversion from > > (Maybe start this with "For example," just to make it clear that this > paragraph is mostly following on from how useful it is that Coccinelle > produces fixes, not just warnings.) I also suggested "for example", in a different place, but either is fine. julia > > > +``kmalloc(x * size, GFP_KERNEL)`` to ``kmalloc_array(x, size, GFP_KERNEL)``, and > > +that's really useful. If you just created a Smatch warning and try to push the > > +work of converting on to the maintainers they would be annoyed. You'd have to > > +argue about each warning if can really overflow or not. > > + > > +Coccinelle does no analysis of variable values, which is the strong point of > > +Smatch. On the other hand, Coccinelle allows you to do simple things in a simple > > +way. > > -- > > 2.35.1 > > >
