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  1. ///Find conditions where if and else branch are functionally
  2. // identical.
  3. //
  4. // There can be false positives in cases where the positional
  5. // information is used (as with lockdep) or where the identity
  6. // is a placeholder for not yet handled cases.
  7. // Unfortunately there also seems to be a tendency to use
  8. // the last if else/else as a "default behavior" - which some
  9. // might consider a legitimate coding pattern. From discussion
  10. // on kernelnewbies though it seems that this is not really an
  11. // accepted pattern and if at all it would need to be commented
  12. //
  13. // In the Linux kernel it does not seem to actually report
  14. // false positives except for those that were documented as
  15. // being intentional.
  16. // the two known cases are:
  17. // arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c:read_opcode()
  18. // } else if ((pc & 1) == 0) {
  19. // /* SHcompact */
  20. // /* TODO : provide handling for this. We don't really support
  21. // user-mode SHcompact yet, and for a kernel fault, this would
  22. // have to come from a module built for SHcompact. */
  23. // return -EFAULT;
  24. // } else {
  25. // /* misaligned */
  26. // return -EFAULT;
  27. // }
  28. // fs/kernfs/file.c:kernfs_fop_open()
  29. // * Both paths of the branch look the same. They're supposed to
  30. // * look that way and give @of->mutex different static lockdep keys.
  31. // */
  32. // if (has_mmap)
  33. // mutex_init(&of->mutex);
  34. // else
  35. // mutex_init(&of->mutex);
  36. //
  37. // All other cases look like bugs or at least lack of documentation
  38. //
  39. // Confidence: Moderate
  40. // Copyright: (C) 2016 Nicholas Mc Guire, OSADL. GPLv2.
  41. // Comments:
  42. // Options: --no-includes --include-headers
  43. virtual org
  44. virtual report
  45. @cond@
  46. statement S1;
  47. position p;
  48. @@
  49. * if@p (...) S1 else S1
  50. @script:python depends on org@
  51. p << cond.p;
  52. @@
  53. cocci.print_main("WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)",p)
  54. @script:python depends on report@
  55. p << cond.p;
  56. @@
  57. coccilib.report.print_report(p[0],"WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)")