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  1. // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  2. ///Find conditions where if and else branch are functionally
  3. // identical.
  4. //
  5. // There can be false positives in cases where the positional
  6. // information is used (as with lockdep) or where the identity
  7. // is a placeholder for not yet handled cases.
  8. // Unfortunately there also seems to be a tendency to use
  9. // the last if else/else as a "default behavior" - which some
  10. // might consider a legitimate coding pattern. From discussion
  11. // on kernelnewbies though it seems that this is not really an
  12. // accepted pattern and if at all it would need to be commented
  13. //
  14. // In the Linux kernel it does not seem to actually report
  15. // false positives except for those that were documented as
  16. // being intentional.
  17. // the two known cases are:
  18. // arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c:read_opcode()
  19. // } else if ((pc & 1) == 0) {
  20. // /* SHcompact */
  21. // /* TODO : provide handling for this. We don't really support
  22. // user-mode SHcompact yet, and for a kernel fault, this would
  23. // have to come from a module built for SHcompact. */
  24. // return -EFAULT;
  25. // } else {
  26. // /* misaligned */
  27. // return -EFAULT;
  28. // }
  29. // fs/kernfs/file.c:kernfs_fop_open()
  30. // * Both paths of the branch look the same. They're supposed to
  31. // * look that way and give @of->mutex different static lockdep keys.
  32. // */
  33. // if (has_mmap)
  34. // mutex_init(&of->mutex);
  35. // else
  36. // mutex_init(&of->mutex);
  37. //
  38. // All other cases look like bugs or at least lack of documentation
  39. //
  40. // Confidence: Moderate
  41. // Copyright: (C) 2016 Nicholas Mc Guire, OSADL.
  42. // Comments:
  43. // Options: --no-includes --include-headers
  44. virtual org
  45. virtual report
  46. @cond@
  47. statement S1;
  48. position p;
  49. @@
  50. * if@p (...) S1 else S1
  51. @script:python depends on org@
  52. p << cond.p;
  53. @@
  54. cocci.print_main("WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)",p)
  55. @script:python depends on report@
  56. p << cond.p;
  57. @@
  58. coccilib.report.print_report(p[0],"WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)")