On Wed, 04 Feb 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote: > Btw, what tool are you using to find these? > working on a set of coccinell scripts - they are not yet really clean - but this one is simply:
virtual context virtual patch virtual org virtual report @assign@ position p; statement S1; @@ <+... * if@p (...) S1 else S1 ...+> @script:python@ p << assign.p; @@ print "%s:%s WARNING: condition with no effect" % (p[0].file,p[0].line) I guess this is not wildly impressive - but it seems to be effective in finding a lot of broken code. The rate of false postivs has been supprisingly low (very few case of intentional if==else like in ./fs/kernfs/file.c:661 - which is nicely documented) thx! hofrat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
