Re: drivers/phy/tegra: Completion for exception handling in probe functions with SmPL?

[Markus Elfring]

> Will any search pattern variations become more interesting for corresponding
> automatic software transformations?

I hoped to achieve something together with the semantic patch language
by the following transformation approach.

@adjustment@
expression object;
identifier exit;
@@
 object = kzalloc(...)
 ...
 if (...)
-{  kfree(object);
    goto
-        exit
+        release_memory
    ;
-}
 ... when any
 device_unregister(...);
-exit
+release_memory
 :
+kfree(object);
 return ERR_PTR(...);


Do you find such a change suggestion reasonable (in principle)?

But I stumble on another unexpected test result.

elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Linux/next-patched> spatch drivers/phy/tegra/xusb-tegra186.c ~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor/complete_exception_handling_in_probe_functions1.cocci
init_defs_builtins: /usr/local/bin/../lib/coccinelle/standard.h
HANDLING: drivers/phy/tegra/xusb-tegra186.c


How would you like to clarify why diff hunks were not generated
for functions like âtegra186_usb2_pad_probeâ and âtegra186_usb3_pad_probeâ
in such an use case?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4-rc2/source/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb-tegra186.c#L445
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/phy/tegra/xusb-tegra186.c?id=bbf711682cd570697086e88388a2c718da918894#n445

Regards,
Markus