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+///Find conditions where if and else branch are functionally
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+// identical.
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+//
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+// There can be false positives in cases where the positional
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+// information is used (as with lockdep) or where the identity
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+// is a placeholder for not yet handled cases.
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+// Unfortunately there also seems to be a tendency to use
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+// the last if else/else as a "default behavior" - which some
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+// might consider a legitimate coding pattern. From discussion
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+// on kernelnewbies though it seems that this is not really an
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+// accepted pattern and if at all it would need to be commented
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+//
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+// In the Linux kernel it does not seem to actually report
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+// false positives except for those that were documented as
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+// being intentional.
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+// the two known cases are:
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+// arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c:read_opcode()
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+// } else if ((pc & 1) == 0) {
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+// /* SHcompact */
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+// /* TODO : provide handling for this. We don't really support
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+// user-mode SHcompact yet, and for a kernel fault, this would
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+// have to come from a module built for SHcompact. */
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+// return -EFAULT;
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+// } else {
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+// /* misaligned */
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+// return -EFAULT;
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+// }
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+// fs/kernfs/file.c:kernfs_fop_open()
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+// * Both paths of the branch look the same. They're supposed to
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+// * look that way and give @of->mutex different static lockdep keys.
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+// */
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+// if (has_mmap)
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+// mutex_init(&of->mutex);
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+// else
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+// mutex_init(&of->mutex);
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+//
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+// All other cases look like bugs or at least lack of documentation
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+//
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+// Confidence: Moderate
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+// Copyright: (C) 2016 Nicholas Mc Guire, OSADL. GPLv2.
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+// Comments:
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+// Options: --no-includes --include-headers
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+
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+virtual org
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+virtual report
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+
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+@cond@
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+statement S1;
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+position p;
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+@@
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+
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+* if@p (...) S1 else S1
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+
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+@script:python depends on org@
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+p << cond.p;
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+@@
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+
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+cocci.print_main("WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)",p)
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+
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+@script:python depends on report@
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+p << cond.p;
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+@@
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+
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+coccilib.report.print_report(p[0],"WARNING: possible condition with no effect (if == else)")
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