Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] staging: wfx: fix warnings of no space is necessary

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-10-20 at 22:17 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:02:31PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > diff -u -p a/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> []
> > > @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ unsigned int OnAuthClient(struct adapter
> > >  				goto authclnt_fail;
> > >  			}
> > >
> > > -			memcpy((void *)(pmlmeinfo->chg_txt), (void *)(p + 2), len);
> > > +			memcpy((void *)(pmlmeinfo->chg_txt), (p + 2), len);
> >
> > I wonder why it didn't remove the first void cast?
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/sta_info.h:151:       unsigned char chg_txt[128];
>
> I think the cocci transforms for an array do not match a pointer
> and I wrote the cocci script without much care.
>
> btw;
>
> There's probably a generic cocci mechanism to check function
> prototypes and then remove uses of unnecessary void pointer casts
> in function calls.  I'm not going to try to figure out that syntax.

With the --recursive-includes option, perhaps:

@r@
identifier f;
parameter list[n] ps;
type T;
identifier i;
@@

T f(ps, void *i, ...);

@@
expression e;
identifier r.f;
expression list[r.n] es;
@@

f(es,
- (void *)(e)
+ e
  ,...)

This of course only works for functions that have prototypes, and not for
macros.  It will also run slowly.

julia


>
> > [ The rest of the email is bonus comments for outreachy developers ].
> >
> > And someone needs to check the final patch probably to remove the extra
> > parentheses around "(p + 2)".  Those were necessary when for the cast
> > but not required after the cast is gone.
> >
> > >  			pmlmeinfo->auth_seq = 3;
> > >  			issue_auth(padapter, NULL, 0);
> > >  			set_link_timer(pmlmeext, REAUTH_TO);
> >
> > It's sort of tricky to know what "one thing per patch means".
>
> It seems somewhat arbitrary and based on Greg's understanding
> of the experience of the patch submitter and also the language
> of the potential commit message.
>
> > -       memset((void *)(&(pHTInfo->SelfHTCap)), 0,
> > +       memset((&(pHTInfo->SelfHTCap)), 0,
> >                 sizeof(pHTInfo->SelfHTCap));
> >
> > Here the parentheses were never related to the cast so we should leave
> > them as is.  In other words, in the first example, if we didn't remove
> > the cast that would be "half a thing per patch" and in the second
> > example that would be "two things in one patch".
>
> For style patches, it's frequently easier and better to
> do all the code transformation at once.
>
> IMO the last should be:
>
> 	memset(&pHTInfo->SelfHTCap, 0, sizeof(pHTInfo->SelfHTCap));
>
> like it is here:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c:1056:       memset(&pHTInfo->SelfHTCap, 0, sizeof(pHTInfo->SelfHTCap));
>
> btw2:
>
> I really dislike all the code inconsistencies and
> unnecessary code duplication with miscellaneous changes
> in the rtl staging drivers....
>
> Horrid stuff.
>
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