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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, cocci@inria.fr
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [cocci] Reconsidering selected SmPL code
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:12:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4640a3e-746b-a434-710e-fbcb296ab9fe@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202210091035.7D63B5FB@keescook>

>> I'm starting to realize I should document my set of "with cocci, how do
>> I ...?" answers somewhere.
> Okay, initial dump is here:
>
> https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/tree/trunk/coccinelle

I suggest to reconsider published implementation details a bit more.
https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/0d128055b31a7737eaa23c040e57a0f34a41e6c1/coccinelle/README.md#user-content-use-regular-expressions-to-quickly-match-identifiers


@display_with_regex@
identifier func =~ "^(?:get_random_(?:int|u32)|prandom_u32)$";
@@
*func
 ()


@display_with_disjunction@
@@
(
*get_random_int
|
*get_random_u32
|
*prandom_u32
)
 ()


Would you like to compare software run time characteristics in more detail?


https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/0d128055b31a7737eaa23c040e57a0f34a41e6c1/coccinelle/README.md#user-content-limit-matches-when-variable-contents-arent-used-again

I propose to take additional SmPL script design options into account.


https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/0d128055b31a7737eaa23c040e57a0f34a41e6c1/coccinelle/README.md#user-content-match-variables-of-a-given-type

Will further collateral evolution happen according to mentioned metavariable declarations?


https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/246d5fe3c1abf0a25778acc5d3b8af02511241b0/coccinelle/examples/rand-pass2.cocci#L1

I wonder why the source code search pattern “prandom_bytes(...)@p” was not used for the SmPL rule “hit”.

I imagine that the addition of constraints for metavariables with
the type “binary operator” can help to avoid duplicate code in related SmPL rules.


Regards,
Markus

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-10 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-07 23:11 [cocci] how to check a for "don't care" state of a variable? Kees Cook
2022-10-08  3:09 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-08  7:43 ` Julia Lawall
2022-10-08  8:55   ` Markus Elfring
2022-10-08  9:00     ` Julia Lawall
2022-10-08  9:15       ` Markus Elfring
2022-10-08 11:02   ` Markus Elfring
2022-10-09 15:10   ` Kees Cook
2022-10-09 15:12     ` Julia Lawall
2022-10-09 15:56     ` Markus Elfring
2022-10-09 17:37     ` Kees Cook
2022-10-09 18:02       ` Julia Lawall
2022-10-09 18:16         ` Kees Cook
2022-10-09 18:19           ` Julia Lawall
2022-10-10  2:16             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-10 19:12       ` Markus Elfring [this message]

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