Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
Reply-To: efremov@linux.com
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, julia.lawall@inria.fr
Cc:     cocci@systeme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
References: <20200811210127.11889-1-efremov@linux.com>
 <20200901094812.428896-1-efremov@linux.com>
 <28483d2663213666503e0109230ac3eb742c8a52.camel@perches.com>
From:   Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Autocrypt: addr=efremov@linux.com; keydata=
 mQINBFsJUXwBEADDnzbOGE/X5ZdHqpK/kNmR7AY39b/rR+2Wm/VbQHV+jpGk8ZL07iOWnVe1
 ZInSp3Ze+scB4ZK+y48z0YDvKUU3L85Nb31UASB2bgWIV+8tmW4kV8a2PosqIc4wp4/Qa2A/
 Ip6q+bWurxOOjyJkfzt51p6Th4FTUsuoxINKRMjHrs/0y5oEc7Wt/1qk2ljmnSocg3fMxo8+
 y6IxmXt5tYvt+FfBqx/1XwXuOSd0WOku+/jscYmBPwyrLdk/pMSnnld6a2Fp1zxWIKz+4VJm
 QEIlCTe5SO3h5sozpXeWS916VwwCuf8oov6706yC4MlmAqsQpBdoihQEA7zgh+pk10sCvviX
 FYM4gIcoMkKRex/NSqmeh3VmvQunEv6P+hNMKnIlZ2eJGQpz/ezwqNtV/przO95FSMOQxvQY
 11TbyNxudW4FBx6K3fzKjw5dY2PrAUGfHbpI3wtVUNxSjcE6iaJHWUA+8R6FLnTXyEObRzTS
 fAjfiqcta+iLPdGGkYtmW1muy/v0juldH9uLfD9OfYODsWia2Ve79RB9cHSgRv4nZcGhQmP2
 wFpLqskh+qlibhAAqT3RQLRsGabiTjzUkdzO1gaNlwufwqMXjZNkLYu1KpTNUegx3MNEi2p9
 CmmDxWMBSMFofgrcy8PJ0jUnn9vWmtn3gz10FgTgqC7B3UvARQARAQABtCFEZW5pcyBFZnJl
 bW92IDxlZnJlbW92QGxpbnV4LmNvbT6JAlcEEwEIAEECGwMFCwkIBwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwEC
 HgECF4ACGQEWIQR2VAM2ApQN8ZIP5AO1IpWwM1AwHwUCXsQtuwUJB31DPwAKCRC1IpWwM1Aw
 H3dQD/9E/hFd2yPwWA5cJ5jmBeQt4lBi5wUXd2+9Y0mBIn40F17Xrjebo+D8E5y6S/wqfImW
 nSDYaMfIIljdjmUUanR9R7Cxd/Z548Qaa4F1AtB4XN3W1L49q21h942iu0yxSLZtq9ayeja6
 flCB7a+gKjHMWFDB4nRi4gEJvZN897wdJp2tAtUfErXvvxR2/ymKsIf5L0FZBnIaGpqRbfgG
 Slu2RSpCkvxqlLaYGeYwGODs0QR7X2i70QGeEzznN1w1MGKLOFYw6lLeO8WPi05fHzpm5pK6
 mTKkpZ53YsRfWL/HY3kLZPWm1cfAxa/rKvlhom+2V8cO4UoLYOzZLNW9HCFnNxo7zHoJ1shR
 gYcCq8XgiJBF6jfM2RZYkOAJd6E3mVUxctosNq6av3NOdsp1Au0CYdQ6Whi13azZ81pDlJQu
 Hdb0ZpDzysJKhORsf0Hr0PSlYKOdHuhl8fXKYOGQxpYrWpOnjrlEORl7NHILknXDfd8mccnf
 4boKIZP7FbqSLw1RSaeoCnqH4/b+ntsIGvY3oJjzbQVq7iEpIhIoQLxeklFl1xvJAOuSQwII
 I9S0MsOm1uoT/mwq+wCYux4wQhALxSote/EcoUxK7DIW9ra4fCCo0bzaX7XJ+dJXBWb0Ixxm
 yLl39M+7gnhvZyU+wkTYERp1qBe9ngjd0QTZNVi7MbkCDQRbCVF8ARAA3ITFo8OvvzQJT2cY
 nPR718Npm+UL6uckm0Jr0IAFdstRZ3ZLW/R9e24nfF3A8Qga3VxJdhdEOzZKBbl1nadZ9kKU
 nq87te0eBJu+EbcuMv6+njT4CBdwCzJnBZ7ApFpvM8CxIUyFAvaz4EZZxkfEpxaPAivR1Sa2
 2x7OMWH/78laB6KsPgwxV7fir45VjQEyJZ5ac5ydG9xndFmb76upD7HhV7fnygwf/uIPOzNZ
 YVElGVnqTBqisFRWg9w3Bqvqb/W6prJsoh7F0/THzCzp6PwbAnXDedN388RIuHtXJ+wTsPA0
 oL0H4jQ+4XuAWvghD/+RXJI5wcsAHx7QkDcbTddrhhGdGcd06qbXe2hNVgdCtaoAgpCEetW8
 /a8H+lEBBD4/iD2La39sfE+dt100cKgUP9MukDvOF2fT6GimdQ8TeEd1+RjYyG9SEJpVIxj6
 H3CyGjFwtIwodfediU/ygmYfKXJIDmVpVQi598apSoWYT/ltv+NXTALjyNIVvh5cLRz8YxoF
 sFI2VpZ5PMrr1qo+DB1AbH00b0l2W7HGetSH8gcgpc7q3kCObmDSa3aTGTkawNHzbceEJrL6
 mRD6GbjU4GPD06/dTRIhQatKgE4ekv5wnxBK6v9CVKViqpn7vIxiTI9/VtTKndzdnKE6C72+
 jTwSYVa1vMxJABtOSg8AEQEAAYkCPAQYAQgAJgIbDBYhBHZUAzYClA3xkg/kA7UilbAzUDAf
 BQJexC4MBQkHfUOQAAoJELUilbAzUDAfPYoQAJdBGd9WZIid10FCoI30QXA82SHmxWe0Xy7h
 r4bbZobDPc7GbTHeDIYmUF24jI15NZ/Xy9ADAL0TpEg3fNVad2eslhCwiQViWfKOGOLLMe7v
 zod9dwxYdGXnNRlW+YOCdFNVPMvPDr08zgzXaZ2+QJjp44HSyzxgONmHAroFcqCFUlfAqUDO
 T30gV5bQ8BHqvfWyEhJT+CS3JJyP8BmmSgPa0Adlp6Do+pRsOO1YNNO78SYABhMi3fEa7X37
 WxL31TrNCPnIauTgZtf/KCFQJpKaakC3ffEkPhyTjEl7oOE9xccNjccZraadi+2uHV0ULA1m
 ycHhb817A03n1I00QwLf2wOkckdqTqRbFFI/ik69hF9hemK/BmAHpShI+z1JsYT9cSs8D7wb
 aF/jQVy4URensgAPkgXsRiboqOj/rTz9F5mpd/gPU/IOUPFEMoo4TInt/+dEVECHioU3RRrW
 EahrGMfRngbdp/mKs9aBR56ECMfFFUPyI3VJsNbgpcIJjV/0N+JdJKQpJ/4uQ2zNm0wH/RU8
 CRJvEwtKemX6fp/zLI36Gvz8zJIjSBIEqCb7vdgvWarksrhmi6/Jay5zRZ03+k6YwiqgX8t7
 ANwvYa1h1dQ36OiTqm1cIxRCGl4wrypOVGx3OjCar7sBLD+NkwO4RaqFvdv0xuuy4x01VnOF
Subject: Re: checkpatch? (was: Re: [PATCH v3] coccinelle: misc: add
 uninitialized_var.cocci script)
Message-ID: <9894cd3d-a545-0daf-9e2d-c2b8d71356ef@linux.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 08:17:02 +0300
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/68.11.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <28483d2663213666503e0109230ac3eb742c8a52.camel@perches.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk


On 9/1/20 5:37 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 12:48 +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
>> uninitialized_var() macro was removed from the sources [1] and
>> other warning-silencing tricks were deprecated [2]. The purpose of this
>> cocci script is to prevent new occurrences of uninitialized_var()
>> open-coded variants.
> 
>> +(
>> +* T var =@p var;
>> +|
>> +* T var =@p *(&(var));
>> +|
>> +* var =@p var
>> +|
>> +* var =@p *(&(var))
>> +)
> 
> Adding a checkpatch test might be a good thing too.
> 
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 149518d2a6a7..300b2659aab3 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3901,6 +3901,17 @@ sub process {
>  #ignore lines not being added
>  		next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);
>  
> +# check for self assigments used to avoid compiler warnings
> +# e.g.:	int foo = foo, *bar = NULL;
> +#	struct foo bar = *(&(bar));
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+\s*(?:$Declare)?([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)\s*=/) {
> +			my $var = $1;
> +			if ($line =~ /^\+\s*(?:$Declare)?$var\s*=\s*(?:$var|\*\s*\(?\s*&\s*\(?\s*$var\s*\)?\s*\)?)\s*[;,]/) {
> +				WARN("SELF_ASSIGNMENT",
> +				     "Do not use self-assignments to avoid compiler warnings\n" . $herecurr);
> +			}
> +		}
> +
>  # check for dereferences that span multiple lines
>  		if ($prevline =~ /^\+.*$Lval\s*(?:\.|->)\s*$/ &&
>  		    $line =~ /^\+\s*(?!\#\s*(?!define\s+|if))\s*$Lval/) {

Looks good. I also faced this kind of assignments after declarations.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/31/85

I'm not sure if they are used to suppress compiler warnings, through.

Denis