Re: [cocci] Looking at guard usage (with SmPL)

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* Markus Elfring (Markus.Elfring@xxxxxx) wrote:
> > Is there a way to look for functions that have a lock, followed by unlocks on
> > multiple error paths?
> 
> Probably, yes.
> https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/667.html
> 
> 
> > IMHO the nicest thing with guard is simplifying lots of error paths, and
> > innevitably someone forgets to unlock in one of them.
> 
> Would you like to improve the support anyhow for more complete and succinct
> resource management in affected software areas?

I was just suggesting a perhaps more targeted approach rather than
just looking for all cases of lock/unlock.

Dave

> Regards,
> Markus
> 
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