coccinelle: semantic patch to check for PTR_ERR after reassignment

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/misc/cstptr.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/misc/cstptr.cocci
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+/// PTR_ERR should be applied before its argument is reassigned, typically
+/// to NULL
+///
+// Confidence: High
+// Copyright: (C) 2012 Julia Lawall, INRIA/LIP6.  GPLv2.
+// Copyright: (C) 2012 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6.  GPLv2.
+// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
+// Comments:
+// Options: -no_includes -include_headers
+
+virtual org
+virtual report
+virtual context
+
+@r exists@
+expression e,e1;
+constant c;
+position p1,p2;
+@@
+
+*e@p1 = c
+... when != e = e1
+    when != &e
+    when != true IS_ERR(e)
+*PTR_ERR@p2(e)
+
+@script:python depends on org@
+p1 << r.p1;
+p2 << r.p2;
+@@
+
+cocci.print_main("PTR_ERR",p2)
+cocci.print_secs("assignment",p1)
+
+@script:python depends on report@
+p1 << r.p1;
+p2 << r.p2;
+@@
+
+msg = "ERROR: PTR_ERR applied after initialization to constant on line %s" % (p1[0].line)
+coccilib.report.print_report(p2[0],msg)