Re: detecting misuse of of_get_property

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Oct 29 2019 - 08:57:26 EST


On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:43:24PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 29/10/2019 11.50, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This should probably work?
>
> I haven't tested it, but yes, something like that. Can you also do the
> case of struct property::value, i.e. handling
>
> struct property *p = ...;
> u32 *v = p->value;

Attached.

This has a bunch of flaws like "void *value = p->value;" doesn't
generate a warning. A function that returns a u32 pointer doing
"return p->value;" doesn't generate a value.

Anyway, it's a starting point to experiment with.

regards,
dan carpenter

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#include "smatch.h"
#include "smatch_slist.h"

static int my_id;

static bool is_u8_or_endian(struct expression *expr)
{
struct symbol *type;

type = get_type(expr);
if (!type || type->type != SYM_PTR)
return true;
type = get_base_type(type);
if (type == &void_ctype)
return true;
if (type_bits(type) == 8)
return true;
if (type->type == SYM_RESTRICT)
return true;
return false;
}

static void match_of_get_property(const char *fn, struct expression *expr, void *unused)
{
if (is_u8_or_endian(expr->left))
return;
sm_warning("'%s' returns big endian data", fn);
}

static void match_assign(struct expression *expr)
{
struct expression *right;
struct symbol *type;

if (expr->op != '=')
return;
if (is_u8_or_endian(expr->left))
return;

right = strip_expr(expr->right);
if (!is_void_pointer(right))
return;
if (right->type != EXPR_DEREF)
return;
if (!right->member || strcmp(right->member->name, "value") != 0)
return;

type = get_type(right->deref);
if (!type || type->type != SYM_STRUCT || !type->ident ||
strcmp(type->ident->name, "property") != 0)
return;

sm_warning("'(struct property)->value' is big endian");
}

void check_of_get_property(int id)
{
my_id = id;

if (option_project != PROJ_KERNEL)
return;

add_function_assign_hook("of_get_property", &match_of_get_property, NULL);
add_hook(&match_assign, ASSIGNMENT_HOOK);
}