Re: [RFC PATCH] coccinelle: misc: add uninitialized_var.cocci script

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020, Denis Efremov wrote:

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> On 8/29/20 10:48 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Aug 2020, Joe Perches wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 21:36 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Denis Efremov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Commit 63a0895d960a ("compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro") and
> >>>> commit 4b19bec97c88 ("docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()")
> >>>> removed uninitialized_var() and deprecated it.
> >>>>
> >>>> The purpose of this script is to prevent new occurrences of open-coded
> >>>> variants of uninitialized_var().
> >>
> >>>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Applied, without the commented out part.
> >>>
> >>> I only got three warnings, though.  Perhaps the others have been fixed?
> >>
> >> uninitialized_var does not exist in -next
>
> Yes, and this rule checks for not introducing these initializations once again.
>
> i.e, checks for:
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> int a = a;
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> int a = *(&a);
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> >
> > OK, if it seems better, I can remove it.  Out of the threee reported, one
> > was a completely unnecessary initialization.
> >
>
> I would like send v2 with better description and link to the documentation because it's
> now available online:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#uninitialized-var

OK, thanks.

julia