scripts/coccinelle/null/kmerr.cocci
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/coccinelle/null/kmerr.cocci
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/coccinelle/null/kmerr.cocci- Extension
.cocci- Size
- 1651 bytes
- Lines
- 74
- 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
/// This semantic patch looks for kmalloc etc that are not followed by a
/// NULL check. It only gives a report in the case where there is some
/// error handling code later in the function, which may be helpful
/// in determining what the error handling code for the call to kmalloc etc
/// should be.
///
// Confidence: High
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Nicolas Palix, DIKU.
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Julia Lawall, DIKU.
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6.
// URL: https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website
// Comments:
// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
virtual context
virtual org
virtual report
@withtest@
expression x;
position p;
identifier f,fld;
@@
x@p = f(...);
... when != x->fld
\(x == NULL \| x != NULL\)
@fixed depends on context && !org && !report@
expression x,x1;
position p1 != withtest.p;
statement S;
position any withtest.p;
identifier f;
@@
*x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
*x1@p = f(...);
if (!x1) S
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@rfixed depends on (org || report) && !context exists@
expression x,x1;
position p1 != withtest.p;
position p2;
statement S;
position any withtest.p;
identifier f;
@@
x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
x1@p = f@p2(...);
if (!x1) S
@script:python depends on org@
p1 << rfixed.p1;
p2 << rfixed.p2;
@@
cocci.print_main("alloc call",p1)
cocci.print_secs("possible model",p2)
@script:python depends on report@
p1 << rfixed.p1;
p2 << rfixed.p2;
@@
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.