On 02/02/15 13:31, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote: > >> Julia, >> >> Is there a way we can write a coccinelle script to check for this? The >> goal being to find all drivers that are comparing struct clk pointers or >> attempting to dereference them. There are probably other frameworks that >> could use the same type of check (regulator, gpiod, reset, pwm, etc.). >> Probably anything that has a get/put API. > Comparing or dereferencing pointers of a particular type should be > straightforward to check for. Is there an example of how to use the > parent_index value to fix the problem? >
I'm not sure how to fix this case with parent_index values generically. I imagine it would be highly specific to the surrounding code to the point where we couldn't fix it automatically. For example, if it's a clk consumer (not provider like in this case) using an index wouldn't be the right fix. We would need some sort of clk API that we don't currently have and I would wonder why clock consumers even care to compare such pointers in the first place. -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
