>> Are you looking for further possibilities to improve the involved >> source code search patterns? > > Why are you not answering the simple question that was asked? I find that I answered it to some degree. It can be that you do not really like the kind of answer that I chose a moment ago. But I guess that a more pleasing (and complete) answer can become another software development challenge as you might know already. Would the following script (for the semantic patch language) be useful enough for further development considerations? usage_of_kmalloc_array1-excerpt2.cocci: @replacement2@ expression count, pointer, target; @@ target = - kmalloc(sizeof(*pointer) * (count) + kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*pointer) , ...); Regards, Markus -- 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