[cocci] [RFC] Detecting missing null pointer checks after memory allocations

Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Newsgroups fr.inria.cocci,org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I got into the mood to try another simple source code search out which
can be achieved also by the means of the semantic patch language.

@display@
expression size, source, target;
@@
 target =
(
*kmalloc
|
*vmalloc
|
*malloc
)(...);
 memcpy(target, source, size);


It can be determined then from the generated diff file that mentioned
implementation details can be found at 11 places (4 source files) of
the software “Linux next-20251031”.
Will such analysis information trigger further collateral evolution?

Regards,
Markus
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