On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:05:42PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

quoted

Constify local structures.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Just my two cents but:

1. You *can* use a static analysis too to find bugs or other issues.
2. However, you should manually do the commits and proper commit
   messages to subsystems based on your findings. And I generally think
   that if one contributes code one should also at least smoke test changes
   somehow.

I don't know if I'm alone with my opinion. I just think that one should
also do the analysis part and not blindly create and submit patches.

All of the patches are compile tested.  And the individual patches are
submitted to the relevant maintainers.  The individual commit messages
give a more detailed explanation of the strategy used to decide that the
structure was constifiable.  It seemed redundant to put that in the cover
letter, which will not be committed anyway.

julia

Anyway, I'll apply the TPM change at some point. As I said they were
for better. Thanks.

/Jarkko

quoted

// <smpl>
// The first rule ignores some cases that posed problems
@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier s != {peri_clk_data,threshold_attr,tracer_flags,tracer};
identifier i != {s5k5baf_cis_rect,smtcfb_fix};
position p;
@@
static struct s i@p = { ... };

@lstruct@
identifier r.s;
@@
struct s { ... };

@used depends on lstruct@
identifier r.i;
@@
i

@bad1@
expression e;
identifier r.i;
assignment operator a;
@@
 (<+...i...+>) a e

@bad2@
identifier r.i;
@@
 &(<+...i...+>)

@bad3@
identifier r.i;
declarer d;
@@
 d(...,<+...i...+>,...);

@bad4@
identifier r.i;
type T;
T[] e;
identifier f;
position p;
@@

f@p(...,
(
  (<+...i...+>)
&
  e
)
,...)

@bad4a@
identifier r.i;
type T;
T *e;
identifier f;
position p;
@@

f@p(...,
(
  (<+...i...+>)
&
  e
)
,...)

@ok5@
expression *e;
identifier r.i;
position p;
@@
e =@p i

@bad5@
expression *e;
identifier r.i;
position p != ok5.p;
@@
e =@p (<+...i...+>)

@rr depends on used && !bad1 && !bad2 && !bad3 && !bad4 && !bad4a && !bad5@
identifier s,r.i;
position r.p;
@@

static
+const
 struct s i@p = { ... };

@depends on used && !bad1 && !bad2 && !bad3 && !bad4 && !bad4a && !bad5
 disable optional_qualifier@
identifier rr.s,r.i;
@@

static
+const
 struct s i;
// </smpl>

---

 drivers/acpi/acpi_apd.c                              |    8 +++---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c                     |   10 ++++----
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c                         |    2 -
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c                       |    8 +++---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_uk.c               |    6 ++---
 drivers/media/i2c/tvp514x.c                          |    2 -
 drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-core.c           |   18 +++++++--------
 drivers/media/pci/ngene/ngene-cards.c                |   14 ++++++------
 drivers/media/pci/smipcie/smipcie-main.c             |    8 +++---
 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c                         |    2 -
 drivers/net/arcnet/com20020-pci.c                    |   10 ++++----
 drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_pci.c                    |    4 +--
 drivers/net/can/sja1000/plx_pci.c                    |   20 ++++++++---------
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c            |    4 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c |    2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c                |   14 ++++++------
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_pci.c     |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c      |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/3945.c           |    4 +--
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/sw.c  |    2 -
 drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_laptop.c            |   22 +++++++++----------
 drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c                 |    6 ++---
 drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_debugfs.c       |    2 -
 drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_flash.c                   |    2 -
 drivers/scsi/hptiop.c                                |    6 ++---
 drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c                             |    4 +--
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c         |    2 -
 drivers/usb/misc/ezusb.c                             |    2 -
 drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_g450.c           |    2 -
 lib/crc64_ecma.c                                     |    2 -
 sound/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c                              |    2 -
 sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c                         |   10 ++++----
 sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c                          |    2 -
 40 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)