kmerr: verify that malloc and calloc are followed by a check to verify
that we are not out of memory.
badzero: Compare pointer-typed values to NULL rather than 0
Both checks are copied from the Linux kernel archive.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Add some useful static code analysis scripts for coccinelle
copied from the Linux kernel v4.14-rc8:
Warn on check against NULL before calling free.
scripts/coccinelle/free/ifnullfree.cocci
Detect superfluous NULL check for list iterator.
scripts/coccinelle/iterators/itnull.cocci
Check if list iterator is reassigned.
scripts/coccinelle/iterators/list_entry_update.cocci
Check if list iterator is used after loop.
scripts/coccinelle/iterators/use_after_iter.cocci
Find wrong argument of sizeof in allocation function:
scripts/coccinelle/misc/badty.cocci
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Many Ethernet drivers still use the legacy miiphy API to register their
mdio interface for access to the mdio commands.
This semantic patch will convert the drivers from the legacy adapter API
to the more modern alloc/register API.
Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Heinrich Schuchardt
Joe Hershberger