Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> In commit e6bafba5b4765a5a252f1b8d31cbf6d2459da337 (“wmi: (!x & y) strikes again”), a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way. This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it …
Category: Linux
Mar 05 2008
drivers/isdn: correct use of ! and &
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> In commit e6bafba5b4765a5a252f1b8d31cbf6d2459da337 (“wmi: (!x & y) strikes again”), a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way. This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it …
Mar 05 2008
drivers/char/isicom.c: correct use of ! and &
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> In commit e6bafba5b4765a5a252f1b8d31cbf6d2459da337 (“wmi: (!x & y) strikes again”), a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way. This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it …
Feb 27 2008
V4L/DVB (7285): em28xx: Correct use of ! and &
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> In commit e6bafba5b4765a5a252f1b8d31cbf6d2459da337, a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way. This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it is only something to consider. The …
Feb 26 2008
arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-sh.c: Correct use of ! and &
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> In commit e6bafba5b4765a5a252f1b8d31cbf6d2459da337, a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way. This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it is only something to consider. The …
Feb 18 2008
net/9p/trans_virtio.c: Use BUG_ON
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> if (…) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(…) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ disable unlikely @ expression E,f; @@ ( if () { BUG(); } | …
Feb 18 2008
net/rxrpc: Use BUG_ON
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> if (…) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(…) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ disable unlikely @ expression E,f; @@ ( if () { BUG(); } | …
Feb 14 2008
fs/udf: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) – 1) / (d)) but is perhaps more readable. An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include @depends on haskernel@ expression n,d; @@ ( – (n + d – 1) / …
Feb 10 2008
[POWERPC] Use FIELD_SIZEOF in arch/ppc
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Robert P.J. Day proposed to use the macro FIELD_SIZEOF in replace of code that matches its definition. The modification was made using the following semantic patch (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @haskernel@ @@ #include @depends on haskernel@ type t; identifier f; @@ – (sizeof(((t*)0)->f)) + FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f) @depends on haskernel@ type t; identifier f; …
Feb 06 2008
drivers/video: add missing pci_dev_get
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> pci_get_device does a pci_dev_get, so pci_dev_put needs to be called in an error case The problem was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @exists@ type T1,T2; identifier E; statement S,S1; expression x1,x2,x3; expression test; int ret != 0; @@ struct pci_dev *E; … ( E = \(pci_get_slot\|pci_get_device\|pci_get_bus_and_slot\)(…); if (E …
