Re: [PATCH v4a 00/38] timers: Use timer_shutdown*() before freeing timers

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 07:08:48 +0800 (+08)
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Various suggestions:
> 
> 1.  On your ... put when strict and then on a separate line put when !=
> ptr.  The when strict will get rid of the goto problem (usually a
> desirable feature, but not here) and the when != ptr will be sure that ptr
> is not used before the free.

You mean ptr->timer.function? because it's allowed to be touched. Only
this case is weird (and I believe I covered it).

Not sure what you mean by "put when strict" I added:

 ... when strict

Thinking that's what you meant (examples would be easier to understand,
than descriptions). And it didn't cover the return case. Does it only
cover gotos?

  See drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c for the false positive case:

	del_timer_sync(&baid_data->session_timer);
[..]
        return 0;

out_free:
        kfree(baid_data);
        return ret;
}

That "return 0" should make the match fail.

> 
> 2.  If you want to handle the initialization of the function field, then
> you can duplicate the rule and add the removal of that assignment in the
> first one.  This only seems worth it if it is a very common case.
> Otherwise, I would agree with Linus and just take care of it by hand
> later.

No, Linus wants the script to not touch the initialization case. That
is, currently, the script does the conversion (which also initializes
it), and the timer.function = NULL is just redundant.

What Linus wanted, was my script to do nothing in this case. But I
figured this part out.

> 
> 3. Running the rule three times seems to me like a reasonable choice.  Or
> you could duplicate the rule three times.  But that would be more script
> to read through.  If this is not a common case, though, you could probably
> also fix the one up later by hand.

Yeah, that's fine.

I'm just looking for how to avoid the goto / return case.

-- Steve