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Commits on Dec 6, 2025

  1. Add initial coccicheck script 

    The coccicheck.py script can be used to run several semantics patches on a
source tree to either generate a report, see the context of the modification
(what lines that requires changes), or generate a patch to correct an issue.

    usage: coccicheck.py [-h] [--verbose] [--spatch SPATCH]
                        [--spflags SPFLAGS]
                        [--mode {patch,report,context}] [--jobs JOBS]
                        [--include DIR] [--patchdir DIR]
                        pattern path [path ...]

    positional arguments:
    pattern               Pattern for Cocci files to use.
    path                  Directory or source path to process.

    options:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    --verbose, -v
    --spatch SPATCH       Path to spatch binary. Defaults to value of
                            environment variable SPATCH.
    --spflags SPFLAGS     Flags to pass to spatch call. Defaults to
                            value of enviroment variable SPFLAGS.
    --mode {patch,report,context}
                            Mode to use for coccinelle. Defaults to
                            value of environment variable MODE.
    --jobs JOBS           Number of jobs to use for spatch. Defaults
                            to value of environment variable JOBS.
    --include DIR, -I DIR
                            Extra include directories.
    --patchdir DIR        Path for which patch should be created
                            relative to.
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  2. Create coccicheck target for autoconf 

    This adds a coccicheck target for the autoconf-based build system. The
coccicheck target accepts one parameter MODE, which can be either "patch",
"report", or "context". The "patch" mode will generate a patch that can be
applied to the source tree, the "report" mode will generate a list of file
locations with information about what can be changed, and the "context" mode
will just highlight the line that will be affected by the semantic patch.

The following will generate a patch and apply it to the source code tree:

    make coccicheck MODE=patch | patch -p1
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  3. Add meson build for coccicheck 

    This commit adds a run target `coccicheck` to meson build files.

Since ninja does not accept parameters the same way make does, there are three
run targets defined---"coccicheck-patch", "coccicheck-report", and
"coccicheck-context"---that you can use to generate a patch, get a report, and
get the context respectively. For example, to patch the tree from the "build"
subdirectory created by the meson run:

    ninja coccicheck-patch | patch -d .. -p1
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  4. Semantic patch for sizeof() using palloc() 

    If palloc() is used to allocate elements of type T it should be assigned to a
variable of type T* or risk indexes out of bounds. This semantic patch checks
that allocations to variables of type T* are using sizeof(T) when allocating
memory using palloc().
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  5. Semantic patch for palloc_array and palloc_object 

    Macros were added to the palloc API in commit 2016055 to improve
type-safety, but very few instances were replaced. This adds a cocci script to
do that replacement. The semantic patch deliberately do not replace instances
where the type of the variable and the type used in the macro does not match.
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  6. Semantic patch for pg_cmp_* functions 

    In commit 3b42bdb and 6b80394 overflow-safe comparison functions where
introduced, but they are not widely used. This semantic patch identifies some
of the more common cases and replaces them with calls to the corresponding
pg_cmp_* function.
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  7. Semantic patch to use stack-allocated StringInfoData 

    This semantic patch replace uses of StringInfo with StringInfoData where the
info is dynamically allocated but (optionally) freed at the end of the block.
This will avoid one dynamic allocation that otherwise have to be dealt with.

For example, this code:

    StringInfo info = makeStringInfo();
    ...
    appendStringInfo(info, ...);
    ...
    return do_stuff(..., info->data, ...);

Can be replaced with:

    StringInfoData info;
    initStringInfo(&info);
    ...
    appendStringInfo(&info, ...);
    ...
    return do_stuff(..., info.data, ...);

It does not do a replacement in these cases:

- If the variable is assigned to an expression. In this case, the pointer can
  "leak" outside the function either through a global variable or a parameter
  assignment.

- If an assignment is done to the expression. This cannot leak the data, but
  could mean a value-assignment of a structure, so we avoid this case.

- If the pointer is returned.
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  8. [CF 5509] Coccinelle for PostgreSQL development 

    This branch was automatically generated by a robot using patches from an
email thread registered at:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5509

The branch will be overwritten each time a new patch version is posted to
the thread, and also periodically to check for bitrot caused by changes
on the master branch.

Patch(es): https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8895cba9-48cf-40fe-9c47-9b43ec6b2ab3@gmail.com
Author(s): Mats Kindahl
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