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@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d4771d --- /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) -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
