Re: [PATCH] Coccinelle: alloc_cast: Add more memory allocating functions to the list

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Jan 16 2018 - 09:35:33 EST


2018-01-14 0:56 GMT+09:00 Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Add more memory allocating functions that are frequently used in the kernel
> code to the existing list and remove the useless casts where it is
> unnecessary.
>
> But preserve those casts having __attribute__ such as __force, __iomem,
> etc which are used by Sparse in the static analysis of the code.
>
> Also remove two blank lines at EOF.
>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)


Applied to linux-kbuild/misc. Thanks!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada