From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:43:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
Message-ID: <xmqq7f0byayu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170615231549.20085-5-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> A follow-up to the existing "type" rule added in an earlier
> change. This catches some occurrences that are missed by the previous
> rule.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---

Hmph, I wonder if the "type" thing is really needed.  Over there,
"ptr" is an expression and we can find "free(ptr); ptr = NULL" with
the rule in this patch already, no?

In any case, I'll queue these patches as-is.  Thanks for working on
this.


>  contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci
> index 35fb992621..f2d97e755b 100644
> --- a/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci
> +++ b/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci
> @@ -17,3 +17,10 @@ T *ptr;
>  - free(ptr);
>  - ptr = NULL;
>  + FREE_AND_NULL(ptr);
> +
> +@@
> +expression E;
> +@@
> +- free(E);
> +- E = NULL;
> ++ FREE_AND_NULL(E);