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A simple search over the kernel souce displays a number of correctly
defined multiline macro, which generally are used as an array element
initializer:
% find ../linux -type f | xargs grep -B1 -H '^[:space]*\[.*\\$'
However checkpatch.pl unexpectedly complains about all these macro
definitions:
% ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types COMPLEX_MACRO -f include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
+#define PERF_MAP_ALL_UNSUPPORTED \
+ [0 ... PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX - 1] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED
The change intends to fix this type of false positives by flattening
only array members and skipping array element designators.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The current test excludes any macro with ## concatenation from being
reported with hidden flow control.
Some macros are used with return or goto statements along with ##args or
##__VA_ARGS__. A somewhat common case is a logging macro like
pr_info(fmt, ...) then a return or goto statement.
Check the concatenated variable for args or __VA_ARGS__ and allow those
macros to also be reported when they contain a return or goto.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I can't but help to react that this:
> #define IOMMU_ERROR_CODE (~(unsigned long) 0)
> Not that this *matters*, but it's a bit odd to have to cast constants
> to perfectly regular C types.
So add a test that looks for constants that are cast to
standard C90 int or longer types and suggest using C90
"6.4.4.1 Integer constants" integer-suffixes instead.
Miscellanea:
o Add a --fix option too
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add virt_ barriers to list of barriers to check for
presence of a comment.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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Introduction of __smp barriers cleans up a bunch of duplicate code, but
it gives people an additional handle onto a "new" set of barriers - just
because they're prefixed with __* unfortunately doesn't stop anyone from
using it (as happened with other arch stuff before.)
Add a checkpatch test so it will trigger a warning.
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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SMP-only barriers were missing in checkpatch.pl
Refactor code slightly to make adding more variants easier.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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Global and static variables don't need to be initialized to 0.
There is already a test for this but the output message doesn't
mention booleans initialized to false.
Improve the output message and the test by adding various forms
with possible specific integer types and possible multiple zeros.
Miscellanea:
o Use a variable to hold the possible 0 test
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Including BUG and stack dumps in commit logs makes checkpatch produce some
false positive warning messages.
checkpatch has multiple types of false positives:
o Commit message lines > 75 chars
o Stack dump address are mistaken for git commit IDs
o Link: and Fixes: lines are allowed to be > 75 chars.
o Fixes: style doesn't require ("<commit_description>")
parentheses and double quotes like other uses of
git commit ID and description.
Fix these.
Miscellanea:
o Move the test for checking $commit_log_possible_stack_dump
above the test for a long line commit message
o Add test for hex address surrounded by square or angle brackets
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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"CONST <comparison> variable" checks like:
if (NULL != foo)
and
while (0 < bar(...))
where a constant (or what appears to be a constant like an upper case
identifier) is on the left of a comparison are generally preferred to be
written using the constant on the right side like:
if (foo != NULL)
and
while (bar(...) > 0)
Add a test for this.
Add a --fix option too, but only do it when the code is immediately
surrounded by parentheses to avoid misfixing things like "(0 < bar() +
constant)"
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Nicolas Morey Chaisemartin <nmorey@kalray.eu>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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commit 61031952f4c8 ("arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of
persistent memory updates") added a new __pmem annotation for sparse
verification. Add __pmem to the $Sparse variable so checkpatch can
appropriately ignore uses of this attribute too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Using checkpatch.pl with Perl 5.22.0 generates the following warning:
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex;
This patch fixes the warnings by escaping occurrences of the left brace
inside the regular expression.
Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixes: and Link: lines may exceed 75 chars in the commit log.
So too can stack dump and dmesg lines and lines that seem
like filenames.
And Fixes: lines don't need to have a "commit" prefix before the
commit id.
Add exceptions for these types of lines.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Using 0x%d is wrong. Emit a message when it happens.
Miscellanea:
Improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Making --strict the default for staging may help some people submit
patches without obvious defects.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some of the block comment tests that are used only for networking are
appropriate for all patches.
For example, these styles are not encouraged:
/*
block comment without introductory *
*/
and
/*
* block comment with line terminating */
Remove the networking specific test and add comments.
There are some infrequent false positives where code is lazily
commented out using /* and */ rather than using #if 0/#endif blocks
like:
/* case foo:
case bar: */
case baz:
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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commit 34d8815f9512 ("checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe
to show filenames") broke the --emacs with --file option.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey Senozhatsky has modified several destroy functions that can
now be called with NULL values.
- kmem_cache_destroy()
- mempool_destroy()
- dma_pool_destroy()
Update checkpatch to warn when those functions are preceded by an if.
Update checkpatch to --fix all the calls too only when the code style
form is using leading tabs.
from:
if (foo)
<func>(foo);
to:
<func>(foo);
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some really long declaration macros exist.
For instance;
DEFINE_DMA_BUF_EXPORT_INFO(exp_info);
and
DECLARE_DM_KCOPYD_THROTTLE_WITH_MODULE_PARM(name, description)
Increase the limit from 2 words to 6 after DECLARE/DEFINE uses.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many lines exist like
if (foo)
bar;
where the tabbed indentation of the branch is not one more than the "if"
line above it.
checkpatch should emit a warning on those lines.
Miscellenea:
o Remove comments from branch blocks
o Skip blank lines in block
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Using BUG/BUG_ON crashes the kernel and is just unfriendly.
Enable code that emits a warning on BUG/BUG_ON use.
Make the code emit the message at WARNING level when scanning a patch and
at CHECK level when scanning files so that script users don't feel an
obligation to fix code that might be above their pay grade.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit IDs should have commit descriptions too. Warn when a 12 to 40 byte
SHA-1 is used in commit logs.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- The combination of tree geometry-initialization simplifications
and OS-jitter-reduction changes to expedited grace periods.
These two are stacked due to the large number of conflicts
that would otherwise result.
[ With one addition, a temporary commit to silence a lockdep false
positive. Additional changes to the expedited grace-period
primitives (queued for 4.4) remove the cause of this false
positive, and therefore include a revert of this temporary commit. ]
- Documentation updates.
- Torture-test updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The synchronize_rcu_expedited() and synchronize_sched_expedited()
expedited-grace-period primitives induce OS jitter, which can degrade
real-time response. This commit therefore adds a checkpatch.pl warning
on any patch adding them.
Note that this patch does not warn on synchronize_srcu_expedited()
because it does not induce OS jitter, courtesy of its otherwise
much-maligned read-side memory barriers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Changes in ("checkpatch: categorize some long line length checks")
now erroneously reports long line defects in patch context.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make this message similar to the "false positives" message and emit it
only once when scanning multiple files instead of after each file scanned.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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People often put diff snippets in changelogs. This causes problems
when one tries to apply a file containing both the changelog and the
diff because patch(1) tries to apply the diff which it found in the
changelog.
Warn once when what seems to be a diff snippet in the changelog exists.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is a well defined list of expected values for MODULE_LICENSE so warn
the user upon usage of unknown values.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Handle multi-line memcpy() properly.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Suggest using eth_zero_addr() or eth_broadcast_addr() instead of memset().
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove 's' modifier to avoid reporting the same warning several times.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Check if memcmp() is used to compare ethernet addresses and suggest using
ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned()
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make an exception for the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff" error
when scanning what appears to be git generated cover letters.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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local is typically used for manually installed apps.
For apps installed from distro the right path is /usr/share.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Using "git diff | ./scripts/checkpatch -" does not have an
easy mechanism to see the files and lines actually modified.
Add --showfile to see the file and line specified in the diff.
When --showfile is used without --terse, the second line of each
message output is redundant, so it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add optional colors to make seeing message types a bit easier.
Add --color command line switch, default:on
Error is RED, warning is YELLOW, check is GREEN. The message type, if
shown, is BLUE.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If there are multiple patches/files on the command line,
use a prefix before the patch/file message output like:
--------------
patch/filename
--------------
to make the identifying which messages go with which
file/patch a bit easier to parse.
Move the perl version and false positive messages after
all the files have been scanned so that they are emitted
only once.
Standardize the NOTE: <...> form to always emit a blank
line before the NOTE and always use print << "EOM" style.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Many lines of code extend beyond the maximum line length. Some of these
are possibly justified by use type.
For instance:
structure definitions where comments are added per member like:
struct foo {
type member; /* some long description */
And lines that don't fit the typical logging message style
where a string constant is used like:
SOME_MACRO(args, "Some long string");
Categorize these long line types so that checkpatch can use a command-line
--ignore=<type> option to avoid emitting some long line warnings.
One of the existing checkpatch exclusions allowed kernel-doc argument
documentation to exceed 80 columns because old versions of kernel-doc
required single line documentation. The requirement was removed in 2009
so remove that exclusion.
Add documentation to make the test a bit clearer.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Michael Shuey <shuey@purdue.edu>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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String detection where a source line with a string constant is converted
can either have an X or a space.
Some of the string detection regexes do not allow the space character, but
there is a handy $String variable that does.
Convert the remaining uses of string detection regexes to use the $String
variable to reduce possible false negatives.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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checkpatch uses various cues in its input patches and files to discover
the names of user-defined types and modifiers. It then uses that
information when processing expressions to discover potential style
issues.
Unfortunately, in rare cases, this means that checkpatch may give
different results if you run it on several input files in one execution,
or one by one!
The reason is that it may identify a type (or something that looks like a
type) in one file, and then carry this information over when processing a
different file.
For example, drivers/staging/media/bcm2048/radio-bcm2048.c contains this
line (in a macro):
size value;
and drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c has this line:
while (size * *nbuffers > vpfe_dev->video_limit)
If checkpatch processes these 2 files in a single command like:
./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f $file1 $file2
the (spurious) "size" type detected in the first file will cause it to flag
the second file for improper use of the pointer dereference operator.
To fix this, store types and modifiers found in a file in separate arrays
from built-in ones, and reset the arrays of types and modifiers found in
files at the beginning of each new source file.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Using declarations like u_int16_t in kernel code is not preferred.
Suggest the kernel sized types instead of the c99 types when not in the
uapi directory.
Add a $typeC99Typedefs variable for the types to check and neaten the
other typedef variables.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus sayeth:
: Pretty much every single time people use this "if
: (waitqueue_active())" model, it tends to be a bug, because it means
: that there is zero serialization with people who are just about to go
: to sleep. It's fundamentally racy against all the "wait_event()" loops
: that carefully do memory barriers between testing conditions and going
: to sleep, because the memory barriers now don't exist on the waking
: side.
:
: So I'm making a new rule: if you use waitqueue_active(), I want an
: explanation for why it's not racy with the waiter. A big comment about
: the memory ordering, or about higher-level locks that are held by the
: caller, or something.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit d5e616fc1c1d ("checkpatch: add a few more --fix corrections")
broke the GLOBAL_INITIALISERS test with bad parentheses and optional
leading spaces.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Bandan Das <bsd@makefile.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since commit 1f65f947a6a8 ("checkpatch: add checks for question mark and
colon spacing") back in 2008, checkpatch has reported false positive for
asm volatile uses of "::" checkpatch thinks colons should always have
spaces around it.
Add an exception for colons with colons on either side for this valid asm
volatile (and c++) use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Yehuda Yitschak <yehuday@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If a patch touches multiple files, the --fix and --fix-inplace option
doesn't keep the proper line count and makes the new patch file not able
to be applied via bad offset line numbers when lines are added or deleted
by the --fix option.
Dunno how that extra backslash snuck in there.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called. We have a
bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on
otherwise valid syscalls. We should avoid this in new code.
Pervasive incorrect usage of ENOSYS came up at the kernel summit ABI
review discussion. Let's see if checkpatch can help.
I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly. They are read-only.
Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts with LTO
linking.
So add a test to try to avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Code such as:
x = timercmp(&now, &end, <);
Will currently trigger a checkpatch error. e.g.
ERROR: spaces required around that '<'
This is because the "Ignore operators passed as parameters" check looks
only for a comma following the operator. Improve the check by also
looking for a close parenthesis.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a test for sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) that could be ARRAY_SIZE(foo).
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add another struct to the list of normally const struct types
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are #defines with long string constants like:
#define foo "some really long string > 80 columns"
Add a long line exception for them.
Miscellanea:
Use the $String variable for slightly better readability
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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