scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci- Extension
.cocci- Size
- 1388 bytes
- Lines
- 67
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- scripts
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/// Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
///
// Confidence: High
// Copyright: (C) 2010-2012 Nicolas Palix.
// Copyright: (C) 2010-2012 Julia Lawall, INRIA/LIP6.
// Copyright: (C) 2010-2012 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6.
// URL: https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website
// Comments:
// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
virtual patch
virtual context
virtual org
virtual report
@r1@
expression from,to;
expression flag;
position p;
@@
to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(strlen(from) + 1,flag);
@r2@
expression x,from,to;
expression flag,E1;
position p;
@@
x = strlen(from) + 1;
... when != \( x = E1 \| from = E1 \)
to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(x,flag);
@depends on patch@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p != {r1.p,r2.p};
statement S;
@@
- to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
+ to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
if (to==NULL || ...) S
- memcpy(to, from, size);
@r depends on !patch@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p != {r1.p,r2.p};
statement S;
@@
* to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
if (to==NULL || ...) S
* memcpy(to, from, size);
@script:python depends on org@
p << r.p;
@@
coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], "WARNING opportunity for kmemdup")
@script:python depends on report@
p << r.p;
@@
coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], "WARNING opportunity for kmemdup")
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.