From: ally heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>,
Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:59:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67e28fadf4c20433c964d13d96dafe3514457656.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221c2b9b-4809-48d8-af7d-f290d1c2a7fa@web.de>
On Wed, 2025-11-05 at 10:18 +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
[..]
> * Do corresponding source code analysis requirements indicate a need
> to perform data processing with other programming interfaces than regular expressions?
>
not sure about other source code analysis tools, but checkpatch
predominantly uses regexes
> * How do you think about to mention the possibility once more that scopes
> can be reduced for affected local variables?
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18-rc4/source/include/linux/cleanup.h#L142-L146
> ...
The docstring talks about interdependency issues caused by assigning to
`NULL` which are very rare
Regards,
Ally
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-04 9:56 Ally Heev
2025-11-04 13:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-11-05 6:27 ` ally heev
2025-11-05 9:18 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-06 16:29 ` ally heev [this message]
2025-11-06 17:03 ` [v3] " Markus Elfring
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