scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci- Extension
.cocci- Size
- 1263 bytes
- Lines
- 50
- 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
/// The various basic memory allocation functions don't return ERR_PTR
///
// 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
@depends on patch@
expression x,E;
@@
x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...)
... when != x = E
- IS_ERR(x)
+ !x
@r depends on !patch exists@
expression x,E;
position p1,p2;
@@
*x = \(kmalloc@p1\|kzalloc@p1\|kcalloc@p1\|kmem_cache_alloc@p1\|kmem_cache_zalloc@p1\|kmem_cache_alloc_node@p1\|kmalloc_node@p1\|kzalloc_node@p1\)(...)
... when != x = E
* IS_ERR@p2(x)
@script:python depends on org@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
cocci.print_main("alloc call",p1)
cocci.print_secs("IS_ERR that should be NULL tests",p2)
@script:python depends on report@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
msg = "ERROR: allocation function on line %s returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure" % (p1[0].line)
coccilib.report.print_report(p2[0], msg)
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.