Re: Coccinelle: Add a SmPL script for the reconsideration of redundant dev_err() calls

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> +@display depends on context@
> >> +expression e;
> >> +@@
> >> + e = devm_ioremap_resource(...);
> >> + if (IS_ERR(e))
> >> + {
> >> +*   dev_err(...);
> >> +    return (...);
> >> + }
> >
> > Why do you assume that there is exactly one dev_err and one return after
> > the test?
>
> I propose to start with the addition of a simple source code search pattern.
> Would you prefer to clarify a more advanced approach?

I think that something like

if (IS_ERR(e))
{
<+...
*dev_err(...)
...+>
}

would be more appropriate.  Whether there is a return or not doesn't
really matter.

>
>
> >> +@script:python to_do depends on org@
> >> +p << or.p;
> >> +@@
> >> +coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0],
> >> +                        "WARNING: An error message is probably not needed here because the previously called function contains appropriate error reporting.")
> >
> > "the previously called function" would be better as "devm_ioremap_resource".
>
> Would you like to get the relevant function name dynamically determined?

I have no idea what you consider "the relevant function name" to be.  If
it is always devm_ioremap_resource then it would seem that it does not
need to be dynamically determined.

julia