Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad mechanisms]

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 20:42 -0500, Julia Lawall wrote:
> New version.  I check for non-use of the return value of strlcpy and
> address some issues that affected the matching of the case where the first
> argument involves a pointer dereference.  Actually, an isomorphism now
> takes care of that case, so it doesn't show up in the semantic patch
> explicitly any more.
> 
> julia

Nice x 2, thanks again.

More comments:

@@
identifier f,i2,i1;
struct i1 e1;
expression e2;
local idexpression x;
position r.p;
@@
(
-x = strlcpy
+stracpy
  (e1.f, e2
-    , i2
  )@p;
  ... when != x

Just for completeness and correctness, as I at
least don't find an existing use:

Perhaps this "x =" should also include += and +
and the various other operators that are possible
or does SmPL grammar already do that?

Also, it might be nice to include the trivial
conversion with sizeof(e1) and ARRAY_SIZE(e1)
so a single script could be run over the kernel.

I'll see about adding that and try it myself
so an automated conversion should be possible.