On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed the patch “tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix return value checking”.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20200325090658.25967-2-mich...@walle.cc/
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1215542/
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/25/202
>
> I am curious if such a software transformation can be extended for similar
> source code searches also by the means of the semantic patch language.
> The proper knowledge of failure predicates for function calls is a key aspect
> for this use case.
> Would you like to clarify any corresponding development possibilities?
I'm not sure what there is to clarify. One can surely write rules that
find this kind of problem, with a varying rate of false positives.
A simple approach would be to check all occurrences of if (!ret) for an
integer-typed variable, because typically that is the success case. But
sometimes people do put the success case under an if.
julia
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