Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v3] Coccinelle: Script to replace allocate and memset with zalloc functions

[SF Markus Elfring]

>> How do you think about the following SmPL script example?
>>
>> @vz_combined
>>  depends on patch && !context && !org && !report@
>> type T;
>> T* pointer;
>> +statement S;
>> expression express;
>> @@
>>  pointer =
>> -          vmalloc
>> +          vzalloc
>>            (...);
>>  if (!d)
>>     S
>> -memset(d, 0, sizeof(
>> (
>> -T
>> |
>> -*(express)
>> )
>> -));
> 
> OK, I thought you meant to make a big disjunctions for all of the before
> and after functions.

I imagine that it would be nice if the function name pairs could be specified
in a more succinct format for the semantic patch language.
But the discussed approach can work with a recent software version already.


> This is a little better because it is bounded in size.

Thanks …


> But I don't understand why you have introduced the variable express.

I have noticed that these two SmPL rules differed only in the source code
search specification for the operator "sizeof".
So I would prefer to express this small difference in the script directly.


> The performance issue is that disjunctions on expressions, eg (A | B), are
> implemented as (A | (!A & B)), ie with a negation of all the previous
> options &d with each option.  So it is better to avoid very large
> disjunctions on expressions.

Is the suggested SmPL disjunction still small enough for this concern?

Regards,
Markus