Re: [PATCH 3/6] arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_tlb.c: fix error return code

From: Alexander Graf
Date: Tue Oct 02 2012 - 07:04:16 EST



On 05.08.2012, at 11:52, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Convert a 0 error return code to a negative one, as returned elsewhere in the
> function.
>
> A new label is also added to avoid freeing things that are known to not yet
> be allocated.
>
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds the first problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> identifier ret;
> expression e,e1,e2,e3,e4,x;
> @@
>
> (
> if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\) || ...) { ... return ...; }
> |
> ret = 0
> )
> ... when != ret = e1
> *x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|devm_kzalloc\|ioremap\|ioremap_nocache\|devm_ioremap\|devm_ioremap_nocache\)(...);
> ... when != x = e2
> when != ret = e3
> *if (x == NULL || ...)
> {
> ... when != ret = e4
> * return ret;
> }
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to kvm-ppc-next.


Alex

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