cocci: add and apply a rule to find "unused" strbufs

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>
This commit is contained in:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-05 15:46:59 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 7a9a10b10e
commit 4f40f6cb73
7 changed files with 119 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -1289,7 +1289,6 @@ static void emit_diff_symbol_from_struct(struct diff_options *o,
{
static const char *nneof = " No newline at end of file\n";
const char *context, *reset, *set, *set_sign, *meta, *fraginfo;
struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
enum diff_symbol s = eds->s;
const char *line = eds->line;
@ -1521,7 +1520,6 @@ static void emit_diff_symbol_from_struct(struct diff_options *o,
default:
BUG("unknown diff symbol");
}
strbuf_release(&sb);
}
static void emit_diff_symbol(struct diff_options *o, enum diff_symbol s,