Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)). The former makes more clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a no-op. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ type T; T x; identifier f; @@ T f (…) { } @@ expression x; …
Category: Linux
May 27 2010
drivers/char/applicom.c: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( – to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || …) { } – …
May 27 2010
drivers/char/ppdev.c: use kasprintf
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size calculation itself. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression a,flag; expression list args; statement S; @@ a = – \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(…,flag) + kasprintf(flag,args) – sprintf(a,args); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Cc: Michael Buesch Signed-off-by: Andrew …
May 27 2010
ipc/sem.c: use ERR_CAST
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)). The former makes more clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a no-op. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ type T; T x; identifier f; @@ T f (…) { } @@ expression x; …
May 27 2010
drivers/telephony/ixj.c: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( – to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || …) { } – …
May 27 2010
drivers/video/via: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( – to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || …) { } – …
May 27 2010
fs/autofs4: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. Elimination of the variable ads, which is no longer useful. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if …
May 27 2010
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( – to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || …) { } – …
May 27 2010
drivers/char/vt.c: use memdup_user
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ – to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( – to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || …) { } – …
May 27 2010
drivers/mmc/host: use ERR_CAST
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)). The former makes more clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a no-op. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ type T; T x; identifier f; @@ T f (…) { } @@ expression x; …
