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From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: smatch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] check_freeing_devm: Also track erroneous usage of kfree when the pointer has been re-assigned
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 16:22:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f1bb327-1af8-232d-7f85-b908c72c89d9@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220526134923.GG2168@kadam>


Le 26/05/2022 à 15:49, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:37:58PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> Le 26/05/2022 à 14:00, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
>>> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 01:40:51PM +0200, Marion & Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>>> Le 26/05/2022 à 13:07, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
>>>>> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:30:05PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>>>>> Le 26/05/2022 à 11:51, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
>>>>>>>> All I know is that it seams to work for me, even if it has not detected any
>>>>>>>> issue yet :) (compiling takes SO MUCH time on my machine)
>>>>>>> Yeah. :/  How big is your smatch_db.sqlite file?
>>>>>> I don't use any up-to-now.
>>>>> Basically all my changes are targetted at making the smatch_db.sqlite
>>>>> file smaller so they won't help you.  Are you at least doing a parallel
>>>>> build?  The smatch_scripts/test_kernel.sh script does a make -j${NR_CPU}.
>>>> Yep.
>>>>
>>>> I've also tweaked smatch_scripts/kchecker which doesn't have any -j, IIUC.
>>> Normally, I only use kchecker on one file...  The problem with doing
>>> parallel builds is that you have to print the warnings to a file instead
>>> of to stdout.
>> smatch.txt:
>>
>> You can also build a directory like this:
>>
>>      ~/progs/smatch/devel/smatch_scripts/kchecker drivers/whatever/
>>
>> and up no now, it is mostly the wayIi use it, :)
>>
> I guess -j has no downside if you're building a single file.
>
> The only problem is that if you're building a directory and sending
> everything to stdout then the lines can get smooshed together.  Is it
> better to just let them smoosh or build the whole directory and then
> find -name \*.c.smatch -exec cat \{\} \;?

Not sure to follow you.

I've not seen any problem yet with using:
    ../git_smatch/smatch_scripts/kchecker drivers/net/ > results.txt

CJ


>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-26 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-26  7:15 [RFC PATCH] check_freeing_devm: Also track erroneous usage of kfree when the pointer has been re-assigned Christophe JAILLET
2022-05-26  9:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-26 10:30   ` Christophe JAILLET
2022-05-26 11:07     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-26 11:40       ` Marion & Christophe JAILLET
2022-05-26 12:00         ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-26 13:37           ` Christophe JAILLET
2022-05-26 13:49             ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-26 14:22               ` Christophe JAILLET [this message]

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