use COPY_ARRAY

Add a semantic patch for converting certain calls of memcpy(3) to
COPY_ARRAY() and apply that transformation to the code base.  The result
is
 shorter and safer code.  For now only consider calls where source and
destination have the same type, or in other words: easy cases.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

6 files changed, 32 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
index a2014266b6..c13e49bf47 100644
--- a/builtin/mv.c
+++ b/builtin/mv.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static const char **internal_copy_pathspec(const char *prefix,
 	int i;
 	const char **result;
 	ALLOC_ARRAY(result, count + 1);
-	memcpy(result, pathspec, count * sizeof(const char *));
+	COPY_ARRAY(result, pathspec, count);
 	result[count] = NULL;
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
 		int length = strlen(result[i]);
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 2a90e37519..9d3d7119e0 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ static int remove_redundant(struct commit **array, int cnt)
 	}
 
 	/* Now collect the result */
-	memcpy(work, array, sizeof(*array) * cnt);
+	COPY_ARRAY(work, array, cnt);
 	for (i = filled = 0; i < cnt; i++)
 		if (!redundant[i])
 			array[filled++] = work[i];
diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d7f25d99f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+@@
+type T;
+T *dst;
+T *src;
+expression n;
+@@
+- memcpy(dst, src, n * sizeof(*dst));
++ COPY_ARRAY(dst, src, n);
+
+@@
+type T;
+T *dst;
+T *src;
+expression n;
+@@
+- memcpy(dst, src, n * sizeof(*src));
++ COPY_ARRAY(dst, src, n);
+
+@@
+type T;
+T *dst;
+T *src;
+expression n;
+@@
+- memcpy(dst, src, n * sizeof(T));
++ COPY_ARRAY(dst, src, n);
diff --git a/pack-revindex.c b/pack-revindex.c
index 96d51c3467..6bc7c94033 100644
--- a/pack-revindex.c
+++ b/pack-revindex.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static void sort_revindex(struct revindex_entry *entries, unsigned n, off_t max)
 	 * we have to move it back from the temporary storage.
 	 */
 	if (from != entries)
-		memcpy(entries, tmp, n * sizeof(*entries));
+		COPY_ARRAY(entries, tmp, n);
 	free(tmp);
 	free(pos);
 
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 24e0dd5232..49a53607bb 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -485,8 +485,7 @@ void copy_pathspec(struct pathspec *dst, const struct pathspec *src)
 {
 	*dst = *src;
 	ALLOC_ARRAY(dst->items, dst->nr);
-	memcpy(dst->items, src->items,
-	       sizeof(struct pathspec_item) * dst->nr);
+	COPY_ARRAY(dst->items, src->items, dst->nr);
 }
 
 void clear_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec)
diff --git a/split-index.c b/split-index.c
index 3c75d4b9ce..35da553655 100644
--- a/split-index.c
+++ b/split-index.c
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ void move_cache_to_base_index(struct index_state *istate)
 	si->base->timestamp = istate->timestamp;
 	ALLOC_GROW(si->base->cache, istate->cache_nr, si->base->cache_alloc);
 	si->base->cache_nr = istate->cache_nr;
-	memcpy(si->base->cache, istate->cache,
-	       sizeof(*istate->cache) * istate->cache_nr);
+	COPY_ARRAY(si->base->cache, istate->cache, istate->cache_nr);
 	mark_base_index_entries(si->base);
 	for (i = 0; i < si->base->cache_nr; i++)
 		si->base->cache[i]->ce_flags &= ~CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE;
@@ -141,8 +140,7 @@ void merge_base_index(struct index_state *istate)
 	istate->cache	    = NULL;
 	istate->cache_alloc = 0;
 	ALLOC_GROW(istate->cache, istate->cache_nr, istate->cache_alloc);
-	memcpy(istate->cache, si->base->cache,
-	       sizeof(*istate->cache) * istate->cache_nr);
+	COPY_ARRAY(istate->cache, si->base->cache, istate->cache_nr);
 
 	si->nr_deletions = 0;
 	si->nr_replacements = 0;