2019-05-20 10:53:47

by Julia Lawall

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Subject: Re: Coccinelle: semantic patch for missing of_node_put



On Mon, 20 May 2019, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > A semantic patch has no access to comments. The only thing I can see to
> > do is to use python to interact with some external tools. For example,
> > you could write some code to collect the comments in a file and the lines
> > on which they occur, and then get the comment that most closely precedes
> > the start of the function.
>
> How dangerous is missing of_node_put? AFAICT it will only result into
> very small, one-time memory leak, right?
>
> Could we make sure these patches are _not_ going to stable? Leaking
> few bytes once per boot is not really a serious bug.

Agreed. Just tell Sasha.

julia

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