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

[SF Markus Elfring]

>>>> @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)
>>>> )
>>>> -));
> 
> Actually, this is a mess.  pointer, d, and express are all supposed to be
> the same thing, as they were in the original rule.
> 
> Furthermore, this shows a reason why the original rule was better.

There is a trade-off between several unique SmPL rules and other combined
variants which could eventually work with two SmPL disjunctions.

Regards,
Markus