Generalize the newly added "unused.cocci" rule to find more than just
"struct strbuf", let's have it find the same unused patterns for
"struct string_list", as well as other code that uses
similar-looking *_{release,clear,free}() and {release,clear,free}_*()
functions.
We're intentionally loose in accepting e.g. a "strbuf_init(&sb)"
followed by a "string_list_clear(&sb, 0)". It's assumed that the
compiler will catch any such invalid code, i.e. that our
constructors/destructors don't take a "void *".
See [1] for example of code that would be covered by the
"get_worktrees()" part of this rule. We'd still need work that the
series is based on (we were passing "worktrees" to a function), but
could now do the change in [1] automatically.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/Yq6eJFUPPTv%2Fzc0o@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a coccinelle rule to remove "struct strbuf" initialization
followed by calling "strbuf_release()" function, without any uses of
the strbuf in the same function.
See the tests in contrib/coccinelle/tests/unused.{c,res} for what it's
intended to find and replace.
The inclusion of "contrib/scalar/scalar.c" is because "spatch" was
manually run on it (we don't usually run spatch on contrib).
Per the "buggy code" comment we also match a strbuf_init() before the
xmalloc(), but we're not seeking to be so strict as to make checks
that the compiler will catch for us redundant. Saying we'll match
either "init" or "xmalloc" lines makes the rule simpler.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
