checkpatch is currently confused about some complex macros and references
undefined variables $stat and $cond.
Make sure these are defined before using them.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>
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>
Naked use sscanf can be troublesome because the pointed to variables may
not have been set.
Add a warning when the sscanf return value is not used.
For now, do not add __must_check to the sscanf prototype because that will
cause a couple of hundred new warnings when compiling a kernel.
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>
Avoid prescribing kernel styled shortcuts for gcc extensions of
__attribute__((foo)) in the uapi include paths.
Fix $realfile filename when using -f/--file to not remove first level
directory as if the filename was used in a -P1 patch. Only strip the
first level directory (typically a or b) for P1 patches.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Find a few more cases where parentheses are used around the value of a
return statement.
This now uses the "$balanced_parens" test and also makes the test depend
on perl v5.10 and higher.
This now finds return with parenthesis uses the old code did not find
like:
ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required
#211: FILE: arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3xflop.h:211:
+ return ((error == 0) ? 0 : -1);
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the FSF
has moved in the past and may do so again.
Make this an error for new code, but just a --strict CHK in --file mode;
anyone interested in doing tree-wide cleanups of this form can enable this
test explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>
Peter Zijlstra prefers that comments be required near uses of memory
barriers.
Change the message level for memory barrier uses from a --strict test only
to a normal WARN so it's always emitted.
This might produce false positives around insertions of memory barriers
when a comment is outside the patch context block.
And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence of any
comment, not at the comment content.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes
a section attribute conflict.
Add --fix capability too.
Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a test for these #defines
Additionally, moved string_find_replace sub as it screws up subsequent
formatting when placed inside another sub.
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>
Checkpatch doesn't currently find CamelCase definitions of structs, unions
or enums.
Add that ability.
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>
seq_vprintf, seq_printf and seq_puts are logging functions and should be
allowed to exceed the maximium line length.
Add maximum line length exceptions for these functions.
Also, suggesting seq_printf conversions to seq_puts should be tested for
arguments after the format.
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>
Extend the CamelCase words found to include structure members.
In https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/3/318 Sarah Sharp (mostly) wrote:
"In general, if checkpatch.pl complains about a variable a patch
introduces that's CamelCase, you should pay attention to it. Otherwise,
[] ignore it."
So, if checking a patch, scan the original patched file if it's available
and add any preexisting CamelCase types so reuses do not generate
CamelCase messages.
That also means Andrew's not so cruelly spurned anymore.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/22/426
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.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>
Spaces around trigraphs are specified by CodingStyle but checkpatch is
currently silent about them because there are many current instances
without them.
Make missing spaces around trigraphs a --strict message.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The use of extern in .h files is a bit contentious.
Make the warning be emitted only when --strict is used on the command
line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As discussed recently on the arm [1] and lm-sensors [2] lists, it is
possible to use section markers on variables in a way which gcc doesn't
understand (or at least not the way the developer intended):
static struct __initdata samsung_pll_clock exynos4_plls[nr_plls] = {
does NOT put exynos4_plls in the .initdata section. The __initdata marker
can be virtually anywhere on the line, EXCEPT right after "struct". The
preferred location is before the "=" sign if there is one, or before the
trailing ";" otherwise.
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/258149
[2] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2013-August/039836.html
So, update checkpatch to find these misuses and report an error when it's
immediately after struct or union, and a warning when it's otherwise not
immediately before the ; or =.
A similar patch was suggested by Andi Kleen
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/5/648
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A previous patch ("checkpatch: add --types option to report only
specific message types") uses a perl syntax introduced in perl version
5.14.
Use the backward compatible perl syntax instead.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are some cases where checkpatch can take a long time to complete.
Reduce the likelihood of this long run-time by adding a new test for lines
with and without comments and eliminating checks on lines with only
comments.
This reduces the number of "ctx_statement_block" calls, and also the
number of tests of $stat, which is now undefined for these blank lines.
One test in particular, the "check for switch/default statements without a
break", could take an extremely long time to parse as it tries to skip
interleaving comments within the ctx_statement_block/$stat and that could
be done multiple times unnecessarily.
A small test case taken from cfg80211.h before this patch would take
1000's of seconds to run, now it's just a couple seconds.
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>
Previous attempt at fixing SPACING errors could make a hash of several
defects.
This patch should make --fix be a lot better at correcting these defects.
Trim left and right sides of these defects appropriately instead of a
somewhat random attempt at it.
Trim left spaces from any following bit of the modified line when only a
single space is required around an operator.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.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>
The tracing subsystem uses slightly odd #defines to set path/directory
locations for include files.
These #defines can cause false positives for the complex macro tests so
add exclusions for these specific #defines (TRACE_SYSTEM,
TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE, TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH).
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.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>
Add a --types convenience option to show only specific message types.
Combined with the --fix option, this can produce specific suggested
formatting patches to files.
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>
checkpatch can generate a false positive when inserting a new kernel-doc
block and function above an existing kernel-doc block.
Fix it by checking that the context line is also a newly inserted line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using the extern keyword on function prototypes is superfluous visual
noise so suggest removing it.
Using extern can cause unnecessary line wrapping at 80 columns and
unnecessarily long multi-line function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Emit a warning when a signature is used more than once.
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>
I got a bug report from a couple of users who said checkpatch.pl was
broken for them. It was erroring out on fairly random lines most commonly
with messages like:
Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340.
The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was end-of-lifed
in 2008: http://www.cpan.org/src/. Versions of perl this old are at
_best_ quite untested. At worst, they are crusty and known to be
completely broken.
If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on them and
give them a half-decent error message rather than fail with nutty error
messages.
This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10, which was
end-of-lifed in 2009. The new --ignore-perl-version command-line switch
will let folks override this if they want.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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>
$Lval is a test for complete name (ie: foo->bar.Baz[1])
If any of this is CamelCase, then the current test uses the entire $Lval.
This isn't optimal because it can emit messages with foo->bar.Baz and
bar.Baz when Baz is a variable specified in an include file.
So instead, break the $Lval into words and check each word for CamelCase
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>
Suggest a few more single-line corrections.
Remove DOS line endings
Simplify removing trailing whitespace
Remove global/static initializations to 0/NULL
Convert pr_warning to pr_warn
Add space after brace
Convert binary constants to hex
Remove whitespace after line continuation
Use inline not __inline or __inline__
Use __printf and __scanf
Use a single ; for statement terminations
Convert __FUNCTION__ to __func__
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>
Might as well check include timestamps and cache the include file
CamelCase uses for the non-git case too.
The camelcase cache file is now named:
for git: .checkpatch-camelcase.git.<commit_id>
for non-git: .checkpatch-camelcase.date.<YYYYMMDDhhmm>
All .checkpatch-camelcase* files are deleted if not current.
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>
Add a file to cache the CamelCase variables found by <commit> to reduce
the time it takes to scan the include/ directory.
Filename is '.checkpatch-camelcase.<commit>' and it is created only only
if a .git directory exists.
<commit> is determined by the last non-merge commit id in the
include/ path.
Reduces checkpatch run time by ~12 cpu seconds on my little netbook.
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>
The current $logFunction regular expression allows names like dev_warn,
e_dbg, netdev_info, etc, but some log functions are now written like
e_dev_warn, so allow 1 or 2 word blocks with an underscore before the
logging level.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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>
When using --strict, CamelCase uses are described with CHECK: messages.
These CamelCase uses may be acceptable and should not generate these
messages when the variable is already defined in a file from the
include/... path.
So, change checkpatch to read all the .h files in include/... and look
for preexisting CamelCase #defines, typedefs and function prototypes.
Add these to the existing camelcase hash so that any uses in the patch or
file can be ignored.
There are currently ~3500 files in include/. It takes about 10 cpu
seconds on my little netbook to grep for and preseed these existing uses.
That's about 4x the time for a similar git grep.
This preseeding is only done once when using --strict and only when there
is a CamelCase use found.
If a .git directory is found, it uses 'git ls-files include' If not, it
uses 'find $root/include -name "*.h"
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>
Many existing variable names use SI like variants that should be otherwise
obvious and acceptable.
Whitelist them from the CamelCase message.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Moving this test allows the --fix option to work better.
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>
Some patches have simple defects in whitespace and formatting that
checkpatch could correct automatically. Attempt to do so.
Add a --fix option to create a "<inputfile>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes"
file that tries to use normal kernel style for some of these formatting
errors.
Add warnings against using this file without verifying the changes.
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>
Some false positives exist on this test.
For instance:
*va_arg(args, signed char *) = val.s;
or
memset(foo, 0, sizeof(struct bar *) * baz));
Ignore lines that have an arithmetic operator or assignment
after what appears to be a cast to a pointer "(foo *)".
Add $Arithmetic convenience variable.
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>
Comparing to true or false is error prone.
Add tests for the various forms of (foo == true) && (false != bar)
that are only reported with --strict.
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>
Check to make sure the blank lines aren't comment lines like:
bool foo(bool bar)
{
/* Don't warn on a leading comment */
return !bar;
/* Don't warn on a trailing comment either */
}
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>
Figure out first how to determine if this is in a struct declaration or in
a function body before enabling this.
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>
Allow "#define foo struct.member" without bleating a warning.
This also allows "#define foo bar.baz->qux" and so on.
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>
Comparing get_jiffies_64() is almost always wrong and time_before64 and
time_after64 should be used instead.
Warn on any comparison to get_jiffies_64().
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>
Comparing jiffies is almost always wrong and time_before and time_after
should be used instead.
Warn on any comparison to jiffies.
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>
Some block comments in network are written as:
/* block comment line 1
block comment line 2
*/
Emit a warning on the "block comment line 2" because it should be
/* block comment line 1
* block comment line 2
*/
This warning is only emitted on the second line of a block comment.
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>
Show the first line of the comment after a line with just /* to better
show where the defective comment style is in the file.
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>
Commit be987d9f80 ("checkpatch: improve CamelCase test for Page") added
it but it shouldn't be there. Must have been my fault.
Make sure that the tested variable doesn't contain a constant.
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>
Add another test for memory allocation style to follow
Documentation/CodingStyle:
Chapter 14: Allocating memory
The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
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>
The gcc extension for binary constants that start with 0b is only
supported with gcc version 4.3 or higher.
The kernel can still be compiled with earlier versions of gcc, so have
checkpatch emit a warning for these constants.
Restructure checkpatch's constant finding code a bit to support finding
these binary constants.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Do not bleat a message on nominally acceptable CamelCase uses that are
separated by an _ like drm_core_has_MTRR.
CamelCase tests are also a bit noisy against certain types of code
acceptable to some kernel developers.
Make the test applicable only with --strict.
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>
As people started using Suggested-by as standard signature, adding
"Suggested-by" to the standard signature so that checkpatch won't
generate warning when Suggested-by is used in patch signature
Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
This check was intended to catch extra newlines at the end of a function
definition, but it would trigger on any closing brace, including those
of inline functions and macro definitions, triggering false positives.
Now, only closing braces on a line by themselves trigger this check.
Tested with:
$ cat test.h
/* test.h - Test file */
static inline int foo(void) { return 0; }
static inline int bar(void)
{
return 1;
}
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f test.h # Before this commit
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+static inline int foo(void) { return 0; }
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 2 checks, 9 lines checked
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f test.h # After this commit
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 1 checks, 9 lines checked
Signed-off-by: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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>
Make space before semicolon a warning instead of a --strict CHK test.
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>
Complain about files with an executable bit set that are not in a scripts/
directory and are not type .pl, .py, .awk, or .sh
Based on an initial patch from Stephen.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a check for seq_printf use with a constant format without additional
arguments. Suggest seq_puts instead.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 13:30 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> If krealloc() returns NULL, it *doesn't* free the original. So any code
> of the form 'foo = krealloc(foo, …);' is almost certainly a bug.
So add a check for it to checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix checkpatch misreporting defect with stringification macros
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
#27: FILE: arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h:41:
+#define ___to_string(X) #X
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Vincent Stehlé <v-stehle@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the ClearPage/SetPage/TestClearPage/TestSetPage variants to the not
reported Page CamelCase 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>
Do not test udelay() for a value less than 10usec when passed a variable
instead of a hard-coded number; there is no way for checkpatch to know the
value of the variable. As it is today, it will complain about variables
with alphanumeric characters plus '_', e.g. foo_bar, but not variables
with other characters, eg. foo->bar.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
kcalloc is sometimes misused with the first and second arguments switched.
Same issue with kmalloc_array too.
Bleat if sizeof is the first argument
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>
I'm getting a ton of these:
WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <PageTransHuge>
#140: FILE: mm/migrate.c:1576:
+ if (PageTransHuge(page) && page_count(page) != 3) {
So exclude anything which starts with "Page".
Tested-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>
Get people to stop adding __devinit and __devexit section markings.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add YA check to printk style.
dev_<level> uses are functions and generate smaller
object code than dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL>.
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>
Commit 74349bcced ("checkpatch: add support for floating point
constants") added an unnecessary match variable that caused tests that
used a $Constant or $LvalOrFunc to have one too many matches.
This causes problems with usleep_range, min/max and other extended
tests.
Avoid using match variables in $Float.
Avoid using match variables in $Assignment too.
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>
Avoid specifying internal uapi #include paths with uapi/... as
userspace should not use and never see that.
Neaten message line wrapping above.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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>
Store the camelcase variables in a hash and only emit a warning on the
first use of each new variable.
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>
Even though the kernel doesn't support using floating point constants,
add a regex for them.
Support forms like: 0x123p1, 123e-1, 1.23, 1.5e23f
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>
Hexadecimal values are current found in 2 parts. A hex constant like
0x123456abcdef is found as 0 and then x123456abcdef and later coalesced.
Instead, reverse the order of the 2 searches in $Constant to find 0x
first, then 0 so that the entire hex constant is found all at once.
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>
switch default case is sometimes written as "default:;". This can cause
new cases added below the default to be defective.
Suggest adding a break; after empty default cases to avoid fallthrough
defects.
Fixed indentation in the other semicolon test above it.
Suggested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
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>
spinlock_t should always be used.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Blank lines around braces are not unnecessary. Emit a message on the use
of these blank lines only when using --strict.
int foo(int bar)
{
something or other....
}
is generally written in the kernel as:
int foo(int bar)
{
something or other...
}
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>
Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be allowed to have a
line continuation.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some projects might want a longer line length so allow a command line
--max-line-length=n control over the long line warnings. The default line
length is 80.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Constantine Shulyupin <const@makelinux.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>
Consolidate the if (foo) bar(foo) detectors into a single check. Add
debugfs_remove and family.
Based on a patch by Constantine Shulyupin.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Constantine Shulyupin <const@MakeLinux.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>
In commit 9c0ece069b ("Get rid of Documentation/feature-removal.txt"),
Linus removes feature-removal-schedule.txt from Documentation, but there
is still some reference to this file. So remove them.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, it is being removed. This will discourage future addition of
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL while it is being phased out.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
When the previous line is not a line continuation and the current line has
a line continuation but is not a #define, emit a warning.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.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>
Some comment styles in net and drivers/net are flagged inappropriately.
Avoid proclaiming inline comments like:
int a = b; /* some comment */
and block comments like:
/*********************
* some comment
********************/
are defective.
Tested with
$ cat drivers/net/t.c
/* foo */
/*
* foo
*/
/* foo
*/
/* foo
* bar */
/****************************
* some long block comment
***************************/
struct foo {
int bar; /* another test */
};
$
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In an effort to get fewer checkpatch reviewer corrections, add a
networking specific style test for the preferred networking comment style.
/* The preferred style for block comments in
* drivers/net/... and net/... is like this
*/
These tests are only used in net/ and drivers/net/
Tested with:
$ cat drivers/net/t.c
/* foo */
/*
* foo
*/
/* foo
*/
/* foo
* bar */
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/net/t.c
WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...
#4: FILE: net/t.c:4:
+
+/*
WARNING: networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line
#12: FILE: net/t.c:12:
+ * bar */
total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 12 lines checked
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Direct conversion of printk(KERN_<LEVEL>... to pr_<level> isn't the
preferred conversion when a struct net_device or struct device is
available.
Hint that using netdev_<level> or dev_<level> is preferred to using
pr_<level>. Add netdev_dbg and dev_dbg variants too.
Miscellaneous whitespace neatening of a misplaced close brace.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>
Check that a commit log doesn't contain UTF-8 when a mail header
explicitly defines a different charset, like
'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"'
Signed-off-by: Pasi Savanainen <pasi.savanainen@nixu.com>
Cc: 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>
Commit b13edf7ff2 ("checkpatch: add checks for do {} while (0) macro
misuses") added a test that is overly simplistic for single statement
macros.
Macros that start with control tests should be enclosed in a do {} while
(0) loop.
Add the necessary control tests to the check.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Franz Schrober <franzschrober@yahoo.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These types of macros should not be used for either a single statement
nor should the macro end with a semi-colon.
Add tests for these conditions.
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>
usleep_range() shouldn't use the same args for min and max.
Report it when it happens and when both args are decimal and min > max.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.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>
Parenthesis alignment doesn't correctly check an existing line after an
inserted or modified line with an open parenthesis.
Fix it.
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>
Suggest the shorter pr_<level> instead of printk(KERN_<LEVEL>.
Prefer to use pr_<level> over bare printks.
Prefer to use pr_warn over pr_warning.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Requires --strict option during invocation:
~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch
This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:
return 0 ;
Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon
for empty loops:
while (foo())
;
Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Revert the --strict test for the old preferred block
comment style in drivers/net and net/
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
checkpatch already makes an exception to the 80-column rule for quoted
strings, and Documentation/CodingStyle recommends not splitting quoted
strings across lines, because it breaks the ability to grep for the
string. Rather than just permitting this, actively warn about quoted
strings split across lines.
Test case:
void context(void)
{
struct { unsigned magic; const char *strdata; } foo[] = {
{ 42, "these strings"
"do not produce warnings" },
{ 256, "though perhaps"
"they should" },
};
pr_err("this string"
" should produce a warning\n");
pr_err("this multi-line string\n"
"should not produce a warning\n");
asm ("this asm\n\t"
"should not produce a warning");
}
Results of checkpatch on that test case:
WARNING: quoted string split across lines
+ " should produce a warning\n");
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 15 lines checked
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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>
Add blank lines between a few tests, remove an extraneous one.
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>
Using yield() is generally wrong. Warn on its use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add some more subjective --strict tests.
Add a test for block comments that start with a blank line followed only
by a line with just the comment block initiator. Prefer a blank line
followed by /* comment...
Add a test for unnecessary spaces after a cast.
Add a test for symmetric uses of braces in if/else blocks.
If one branch needs braces, then all branches should use braces.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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>
Add [] to a type extensions. Fixes false positives on:
.attrs = (struct attribute *[]) {
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
With any very high precedence operator it is not necessary to enforce
additional parentheses around simple negated expressions. This prevents
us requesting further perentheses around the following:
#define PMEM_IS_FREE(id, index) !(pmem[id].bitmap[index].allocated)
For now add logical and bitwise not and unary minus.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Adjacent strings indicate concatentation, therefore look at identifiers
directly adjacent to literal strings as strings too. This allows us to
better detect the form below and accept it as a simple constant:
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Fix checkpatch.pl when both -q and --ignore are given and prevents it from
printing a
NOTE: Ignored message types: blah
messages.
E.g., if I use -q --ignore PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED, i see:
NOTE: Ignored message types: PREFER_ALIGNED PREFER_PACKED
It makes no sense to print this when -q is given.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Argument alignment across multiple lines should match the open
parenthesis.
Logical continuations should be at the end of the previous line, not the
start of a new line.
These are not required by CodingStyle so make the tests active only when
using --strict.
Improved by some examples from Bruce Allen.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Bruce W. Allen" <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's equivalent to __printf, so prefer __scanf.
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>
Overly indented code should be refactored.
Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of of
if/else/for/do/while/switch statements.
For example:
$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (1)
if (2)
if (3)
if (4)
if (5)
if (6)
if (7)
if (8)
;
return 0;
}
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#12: FILE: t.c:12:
+ if (6)
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#13: FILE: t.c:13:
+ if (7)
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#14: FILE: t.c:14:
+ if (8)
total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked
t.c has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up type and cast spacing checks such that all occurences on a line are
examined and reported. For example the line below has a valid cast and a
bad type, but currently we check the cast first which is good and stop:
u16* bar = (u16 *)baz;
We will also only report one of the errors in this example:
u16* bar = (u16*)bad;
Move to iterating across all casts and all types, reporting any failure.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
typeof may have various more complex forms as its arguement, not just an
identifier. For now allow us to leak to the first close perenthesis ')'.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Ensure the cast type is unique in the context parser, we do not want them
to detect as a comma ','.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
We are incorrectly matching square brackets '[' and ']' leading to false
positives on more complex functions as below:
return (dt3155_fbuffer[m]->ready_head -
dt3155_fbuffer[m]->ready_len +
dt3155_fbuffer[m]->nbuffers)%
(dt3155_fbuffer[m]->nbuffers);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
It is common to stub out a function as below, this is triggering a complex
macro format incorrectly. Sort this out:
#define cma_early_regions_reserve(reserve) do { } while (0)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
The following fragment defeats the DEVICE_ATTR style handing, check for
and ignore the close brace '}' in this context:
int foo()
{
}
DEVICE_ATTR(link_power_management_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
ata_scsi_lpm_show, ata_scsi_lpm_put);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_attr_link_power_management_policy);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
The intent of this check is to catch the options which the user will see
and ensure they are properly described. It is also common for internal
only options to have a brief description. Allow this form.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
In the middle of a long definition or similar, there is no possibility of
finding a smaller sub-statement. Optimise this case by skipping statement
aquirey where there are no starts of statement (open brace '{' or
semi-colon ';'). We are likely to scan slightly more than needed still
but this is safest.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Inserting a # into the modifiers list will incorrectly add the null string
to the modifiers list, leading to an infinite loop. As neither of these
is a valid modifier form simply ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Improve the checking of arguments to memset and min/max tests.
Move the checking of min/max to statement blocks instead of single line.
Change $Constant to allow any case type 0x initiator and trailing ul
specifier. Add $FuncArg type as any function argument with or without a
cast. Print the whole statement when showing memset or min/max messages.
Improve the memset with 0 as 3rd argument error message.
There are still weaknesses in the $FuncArg and $Constant code as arbitrary
parentheses and negative signs are not generically supported.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix per Andy]
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>
Move the memset checks over to work against the statement. Also add
checks for 0 and 1 used as lengths. Generally these indicate badly
ordered parameters.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
When looking for a statement we currently run on through preprocessor
commands. This means that a header file with just definitions is parsed
over and over again combining all of the lines from the current line to
the end of file leading to severe performance issues.
Fix up context accumulation to track preprocessor commands and stop when
reaching the end of them. At the same time vastly simplify the #define
handling.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
Add a warn for not using __printf.
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>
email header lines can look like signature tags. It's valid to have
multiple email recipients on a single line but not valid to have multiple
signatures on a single line.
Validate signatures only when not in the email headers.
Clear the $in_commit_log flag when the patch filename appears.
Add '-' to the valid chars in a message header for headers
like "Message-Id:" and "In-Reply-To:".
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
script/checkpatch.pl: warn about deprecated use of EXTRA_{A,C,CPP,LD}FLAGS
tags, powerpc: Update tags.sh to support _GLOBAL symbols
scripts: add extract-vmlinux
Some find using utf-8 in commit logs inappropriate.
Some patch commit logs contain unintended utf-8 characters when doing
things like copy/pasting compilation output.
Look for the start of any commit log by skipping initial lines that look
like email headers and "From: " lines.
Stop looking for utf-8 at the first signature line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark obsolete/deprecated strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> functions
and macros as obsolete.
Update checkpatch to warn about their use.
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>
This is a resend from the original, changing the title from PATCH to
RFC(since this is a review for commit, and I should have put that the first go around).
and also removing some of the commit's with ia64 and bash since it is significant.
let me know if I might have missed anything etc..
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Usage of these flags has been deprecated for nearly 4 years by:
commit f77bf01425
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@neptun.(none)>
Date: Mon Oct 15 22:25:06 2007 +0200
kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
Moreover, these flags (at least EXTRA_CFLAGS) have been documented for command
line use. By default, gmake(1) do not override command line setting, so this is
likely to result in build failure or unexpected behavior.
Warn about their introduction in Makefile or Kbuild files.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The test for bad usage of min_t() and max_t() is missing the --ignore
type. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
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>
Previous behavior allowed only alphabetic prefixes like pr_info to exceed
the 80 column line length limit.
ath6kl wants to add a digit into the prefix, so allow numbers as well as
digits in the <prefix>_<level> printks.
<prefix>_<level>_ratelimited and <prefix>_<level>_once and WARN_RATELIMIT
and WARN_ONCE may now exceed 80 cols.
Add missing <prefix>_printk type for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some patches are sent in using ISO-8859 or even Windows codepage 1252.
Make checkpatch accept these by default and only emit the "Invalid UTF-8"
message when using --strict.
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>
Some users would like the ability to not emit some of the messages that
checkpatch produces. This can make it easier to use checkpatch in other
projects and integrate into scm hook scripts.
Add command line option to "--ignore" various message types. Add option
--show-types to emit the "type" of each message. Categorize all ERROR,
WARN and CHK messages with types.
Add optional .checkpatch.conf file to store default options.
3 paths are searched for .checkpatch.conf
. customized per-tree configurations
$HOME user global configuration when per-tree configs don't exist
./scripts lk defaults to override script
The .conf file can contain any valid command-line argument and
the contents are prepended to any additional command line arguments.
Multiple lines may be used, blank lines are ignored, # is a comment.
Update "false positive" output for readability.
Update version to 0.32
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prefer the use of __aligned(size) over __attribute__((__aligned___(size)))
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110609094526.1571774c.akpm@linux-foundation.org
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Signatures have many forms and can sometimes cause problems if not in the
correct format when using git send-email or quilt.
Try to verify the signature tags and email addresses to use the generally
accepted "Signed-off-by: Full Name <email@domain.tld>" form.
Original idea by Anish Kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Anish Kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix "need consistent spacing around '*'" error after a __rcu sparse
annotation which was caused by the missing __rcu entry in the
checkpatch.pl internal list of sparse keywords.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
A common issue with min() or max() is using a cast on one or both of the
arguments when using min_t/max_t could be better.
Add cast detection to uses of min/max and suggest an appropriate use of
min_t or max_t instead.
Caveat: This only works for min() or max() on a single line.
It does not find min() or max() split across multiple lines.
This does find:
min((u32)foo, bar);
But it does not find:
max((unsigned long)foo,
bar);
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Warn about uses of printk_ratelimit() because it uses a global state and
can hide subsequent useful messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, printk lines with a only KERN_PREFIX and a quoted string
without a comma or close paren that exceed 80 columns are flagged with a
warning.
ie:
printk(KERN_WARNING "some long string that extends beond 80 cols..."
"and is continued on another line\n");
Allow this form instead of emitting a warning.
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>
Many module or file local logging functions use specific prefixes other
than pr|dev|netdev. Allow all forms like foo_printk and foo_err to be
longer than 80 columns.
Also allow MODULE_<BAR> declarations to be longer than 80 columns.
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>
Add a warning for unterminated quoted strings with line continuations as
these frequently add unwanted whitespace.
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>
Because the second and third arguments of memset have the same type, it
turns out to be really easy to mix them up.
This bug comes up time after time, so checkpatch should really be checking
for it at patch submission time.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If you run checkpatch against multiple patches, and one of them has a
whitespace issue which can be helped via a script (rpt_cleaners), you will
see the same NOTE over and over for all subsequent patches. It makes it
seem like those patches also have whitespace problems when in reality,
there's only one or two bad apples.
So reset rpt_cleaners back to 0 after we've issued the note so that it
only shows up near the patch with the actual problems.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty,
libc way to indicate failure.
2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and
comments pretend they do.
3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants,
but users want strtou8()
4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong:
Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist
because conversion should be strict by default.
The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types.
Enter
kstrtoull()
kstrtoll()
kstrtoul()
kstrtol()
kstrtouint()
kstrtoint()
kstrtou64()
kstrtos64()
kstrtou32()
kstrtos32()
kstrtou16()
kstrtos16()
kstrtou8()
kstrtos8()
Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well.
strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and
eventually will be removed altogether.
Use kstrto*() in code today!
Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if
they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution,
because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these
functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and
__alignof__ at least always works.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a __packed #define for __attribute__((packed)). Add a checkpatch
to tell people about it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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>
Exporting world writable sysfs/debugfs files is usually a bad thing. Warn
about it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.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>
We should only claim that something is a cast if we did not encouter a
token before, that did set av_pending.
This fixes the operator * in the line below to be detected as binary (vs
unary).
kmalloc(sizeof(struct alphatrack_ocmd) * true_size, GFP_KERNEL);
Reported-by: Audun Hoem <audun.hoem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Semaphores used as mutexes have been deprecated for years. Now that
all users are either converted to real semaphores or to mutexes remove
the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.562399240@linutronix.de>
Add warnings for possible missing const uses of
static char foo[] = "bar"
that could be
static const char foo[] = "bar"
and
static const char *foo[] = {"bar", "baz"}
that could be
static const char * const foo[] = {"bar", "baz"}
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.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>
When tracking context to find a block or statement we need to use the
sanitised lines, else perentheses '(' & ')' and braces '{' & '}' can throw
the scanner out. Also fix up a couple of error outputs which include
those sanitised lines incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handly definitions similar to below. The definition macro spits out a
symbol with a prefix. Add matching of any identifier prefix:
DEVICE_ATTR(link_power_management_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
ata_scsi_lpm_show, ata_scsi_lpm_put);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_attr_link_power_management_policy);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handle definitions such as the following correctly, it is not
a complex statement:
#define PREALLOC(NAME, START, END, FLAGS) { \
.name = (NAME), \
.start = (START), \
.end = (END), \
.flags = (FLAGS) \
},
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:35 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just got this from a patch I merged..
>
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #121: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c:113:
> +static struct pcc_cpu __percpu *pcc_cpu_info;
> ^
> which doesn't seem right.
Perhaps these need to be added to checkpatch.
[apw@canonical.com: added tests]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Throw an error when a source file has been given execute permissions using
the mode change line present in git diffs. Also alow the filename
matching to use the "diff" line in addition to the "+++" line, since the
mode change lines appear before any "+++" lines.
[apw@canonical.com: simplified filename logic slightly, added tests]
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When checking the length of the help we need to be sure we are seeing the
whole story before erroring. Firstly we only want to check when adding
the help in the first place. Second we need to be sure that we are seeing
the end of the entry, nominally when there is no context below or that
context shows the start of the next entry.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commonise the code for missing spaces after struct, union, and enum such
that they share the same code. Ensure we cover all the common cases in
each case. Check against the sanitised line to ensure we do not report on
comments and strings.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add spacing checks for struct, union, and enum definitions. Check the
spacing after type and before the equals (=) and open brace ({).
Based on a patch by Joe Perches.
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a (strict mode only) test to check for non-negative returns of what
appear to be errno values as the majority case these should indeed be
negative.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The following incantation is triggering categorisation of its colon (:) as
a binary form, which it is not:
return foo ? (s8)bar : baz;
Handle casts differently from types in the categoriser, allowing us to
better track (s8)bar as a value and not a declaration.
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When determining if a return () sequence is a function style bracketing we
simplify the expression one bracket at a time replacing each with a
constant. However this can trigger a false merge with expressions as
below:
return (foo)0;
Prevent this false merging.
Reported-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we hit types of whitespace which may be fixed by scripts/cleanpatch
and scripts/cleanfile suggest their use in our report.
Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When the following form is used we have a type which fully fills a line.
This means that a type may end at the end of line as well as at the
following identifier.
int **
foo;
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch "checkpatch: fix handling of leading spaces" added checks for
leading spaces on lines, but this introduces regressions. Firstly it does
not correctly detect when we are in a comment. Secondly it does not allow
for preprocessor command spacing. Finally it does not allow for label
indentation which is required to be less than one tab. Fix these up:
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These are caused by checkpatch incorrectly parsing its internal
representation of a statement block for struct's (or anything else that is
a statement block encapsulated in {}'s that also ends with a ';'). Fix
this by properly parsing a statement block.
An example:
+struct dummy_type dummy = {
+ .foo = "baz",
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy);
+
+static int dummy_func(void)
+{
+ return -EDUMMYCODE;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy_func);
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately \
follow its function/variable
#19: FILE: dummy.c:4:
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy);
The above warning is issued when it should not be.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As explained in Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt, msleep's of < 20ms
may sleep for as long as 20ms. Caller's of msleep(1) or msleep(2), etc
are likely not to expect this quirky behavior - warn them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When possible, sleeping is (usually) better than delaying; however, don't
bother callers of udelay < 10us, as those cases are generally not worth
the switch to usleep
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mismatched parentheses]
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add new logging functions netdev_<level> and netif_<level>.
Don't complain if the only thing on a line is a quoted string.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make error message say 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL'
rather than 'ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL'. Makes more
sense in the context since there is an extern keyword in C and that is a
global declaration within the scope of the current file.
Signed-off-by: Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I've got a false positive when spaces are present at the beginning of a
line.
So I add this check, obviously excluding to check the lines in the middle of
comments.
For instance this code passes the checkpatch test:
+struct davinci_mcbsp_data {
+ unsigned int fmt;
+ int clk_div;
+};
+
+static struct davinci_mcbsp_data mcbsp_data;
Where, before the string "int clk_div", I have 4 spaces (\040
ascii character).
With v2.6.34 scripts/checkpatch.pl script I get:
scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 201 lines checked
0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch has no obvious style
problems and is ready for submission.
That is not correct. Instead with the proposed patch I get:
scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch
WARNING: please, no space for starting a line,
excluding comments
#63: FILE: sound/soc/davinci/davinci-i2s.c:165:
+ int clk_div;$
WARNING: please, no space for starting a line,
excluding comments
#95: FILE: sound/soc/davinci/davinci-i2s.c:406:
+ return 0;$
total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 201 lines checked
That is correct.
Signed-off-by: Raffaele Recalcati <raffaele.recalcati@bticino.it>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the check suggesting replacement of asm-includes with
linux-includes. Exceptions to this rule are easier to extend now. Add
memory.h because ARM has a custom one.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:
The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I've seen various new Kconfigs with rather unhelpful one liner
descriptions. Add a Kconfig warning for a minimum length of the Kconfig
help section.
Right now I arbitarily chose 4. The exact value can be debated.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.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>
The conversion of device->sem to device->mutex resulted in lockdep
warnings. Create a novalidate class for now until the driver folks
come up with separate classes. That way we have at least the basic
mutex debugging coverage.
Add a checkpatch error so the usage is reserved for device->mutex.
[ tglx: checkpatch and compile fix for LOCKDEP=n ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Based on Arjan's suggestion, extend the list of ops structures that should
be const.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here is a small code snippet, which will be complained about by
checkpatch.pl:
#define __STRUCT_KFIFO_COMMON(recsize, ptrtype) \
union { \
struct { \
unsigned int in; \
unsigned int out; \
}; \
char rectype[recsize]; \
ptrtype *ptr; \
const ptrtype *ptr_const; \
};
This construct is legal and safe, so checkpatch.pl should accept this. It
should be also true for struct defined in a macro.
Add the `struct' and `union' keywords to the exceptions list of the
checkpatch.pl script, to prevent error message "Macros with multiple
statements should be enclosed in a do - while loop". Otherwise it is not
possible to build a struct or union with a macro.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
checkpatch falsely complained about '__initconst' because it thought the
'const' needed a space before. Fix this by changing the list of
attributes:
- add '__initconst'
- force plain 'init' to contain a word-boundary at the end
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In case if the statement and the conditional are in one line, the line
appears in the report doubly.
And items of this check have no blank line before the next item.
This patch fixes these trivial problems, to improve readability of the
report.
[sample.c]
> if (cond1
> && cond2
> && cond3) func_foo();
>
> if (cond4) func_bar();
Before:
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #1: FILE: sample.c:1:
> +if (cond1
> [...]
> + && cond3) func_foo();
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #5: FILE: sample.c:5:
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
> total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked
After:
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #1: FILE: sample.c:1:
> +if (cond1
> [...]
> + && cond3) func_foo();
>
> ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> #5: FILE: sample.c:5:
> +if (cond4) func_bar();
>
> total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.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>
sizeof(&foo) is frequently an error. Warn on its use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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>
Maybe this will stop people emailing me about it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ingo reported that the following lines triggered a false warning,
static struct lock_class_key rcu_lock_key;
struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map =
STATIC_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT("rcu_read_lock", &rcu_lock_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_lock_map);
from kernel/rcutree.c , and the false warning looked like this,
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_lock_map);
We actually should be checking the statement before the EXPORT_* for a
mention of the exported object, and complain where it is not there.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the following code,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};
However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".
It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace. Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The macro concatenation (##) sequence can cause false errors when checking
macro's. Checkpatch doesn't currently know about the operator.
For example this line,
+ entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data; \
is correct but it produces the following error,
ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
+ entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data;\
^
The line above doesn't have any spacing problems, and if you remove the
macro concatenation sequence checkpatch doesn't give any errors.
Extend identifier handling to include ## concatenation within the
definition of an identifier.
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are allowing context scanning checks to apply against the first line of
context outside at the end of the hunk. This can lead to false matches to
patch names leading to various perl warnings. Correctly stop at the
bottom of the hunk.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prevent known non types being detected as modifiers. Ensure we do not
look at any type which starts with a keyword.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add checks for Blackfin-specific issues that seem to crop up from time to
time. In particular, we have helper macros to break a 32bit address into
the hi/lo parts, and we want to make sure people use the csync/ssync
variant that includes fun anomaly workarounds.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Limit our type matcher to the s/u/le/be etc sizes that actually exist to
prevent miss categorising s2 as a type. Fix up the spelling of the error
also.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should not recommend braces for the following:
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s: " fmt, __func__
allow things with double quotes round them to avoid this check.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact:
- More verbose help/usage message.
- Make the option -f an alias for --file.
- On -h, --help, and --version display help message and exit(0).
- With no FILE(s) given, exit(1) with "no input files".
- On invalid options display help/usage and exit(1).
Based on a patch by Pavel Machek.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure we terminate when there are no futher continuation lines when
trying to determine relative indent of conditionals and their blocks.
Reported-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes the sanitation process in checkpatch.pl so that it blocks out
the text after a C99 style comment the same way it does with block style
comments. This prevents the text from getting processed as regular code.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An else cannot start a type, it would have to be within a block after the
else. This can trigger false modifier matching.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add __ref as a sparse modifier.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should allow testing of all modifiers not just attributes. Extend
testing and test for all the know modifiers.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We must make sure we do not misrecognise a modifier as an Identifier
when trying to match types. Prevent us matching this:
void * __ref
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We may have any modifier following a pointer type star. Handle this:
void * __user * __user foo;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types,
for example:
void * __user * __user bar;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are triggering the -p0 check for our own diffs generated using --file
command line option. Suppress this check for files.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We say that in_atomic() is ok in the core kernel, but then always report
it regardless of where in the kernel it is. Keep quiet if it is used in
kernel/*.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the general use case struct seq_operations should be a const object.
Check for and warn where it is not.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should not be continuing a braced section with an if, for example:
if (...) {
} if (...) {
}
Detect this and suggest adding a newline.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we allow return to have surrounding parentheses when containing
comparison operators we are not correctly handling the case where the
values contain array sufffixes. Squash them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should not be complaining about the prefix spacing for types and casts.
We are triggering here because the check for spacing between '*'s is
overly loose. Tighten this up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the #if opening statement is not in the context then the context stack
can be empty. Handle this by ensuring there is always a blank entry in
the stack.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Clean up checkpatch using perlcritic.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the general use case struct file_operations should be a const object.
Check for and warn where it is not. As suggested by Steven and Ingo.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When checking for assignments within if conditionals we check the whole of
the condition, but the match is performed using a line constrained regular
expression. This means we can miss split conditionals or those on the
second line. Allow the check to span lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure we do not report identifiers containing the word static as static
declarations. For example this should not be reported as an unecessary
assignement of 0:
long nr_static = 0;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When picking up a complete statement or block for analysis we cannot
simply track open/close/etc parenthesis we must take into account
preprocessor section boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are miscategorising a continuation fragment following an operator
which may lead to us thinking that there is a space after it when there is
not. Fix this up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Loosen spacing checks to correctly detect this valid use of a typedef:
typedef struct rcu_data *(*get_data_func)(int);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Seems like every other release we have someone who updates vmlinux.lds.h
and adds C-visible symbols without VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around them. So start
checking the file and reject assignments which have plain symbols on
either side.
[apw@canonical.com: soften the check, add tests]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems to be a common idiom to include braces on conditionals in all
contexts including return. Allow this exception to the return is not a
function checks. Reported by Kay Sievers.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some people work internally with -p0-patches which has the danger that one
forgets to convert them to -p1 before mainlining. Bitten myself and seen
p0-patches in mailing lists occasionally, this patch adds a warning to
checkpatch.pl in case a patch is -p0. If you really want, you can fool
this check to generate false positives, this is why it just spits a
warning. Making the check 100% proof is trickier than it looks, so let's
start with a version which catches the cases of real use.
[apw@canonical.com: update message language, handle null prefix, add tests]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Disallow spaces within multiple pointer stars (*) in both casts and
definitions. Both of these would now be reported:
(char * *)
char * *foo;
Also now consistently detects and reports the attributes within these
structures making the error report itself clearer.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we are detecting whether a comment is open when we start a hunk we
check for the first comment edge in the hunk and assume its inverse.
However if the hunk contains something like below, then we will assume
that a comment was open. Update this heuristic to see if the comment edge
is obviously within double quotes and ignore it if so:
foo(" */);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Detect the colons (:) which make up secondary bitfield declarations and
apply binary colon checks. For example the following is common idiom:
int foo:1,
bar:1;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add __weak as an official attribute. This tends to be used in a location
where the automated attribute detector misses it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure we do not trigger the complex macros checks on structure member
assignment, for example:
#define foo .bar = 10
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some people use double star '**' as a comment continuation, and start
comments with complete lines of stars. Widen the implied comment
detection to pick these up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When detecting implied comments from leading stars we may incorrectly
think we have detected an edge one way or the other when we have not if we
drop off the end of the last hunk. Fix this up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
in_atomic() is not for driver use so report any such use as an ERROR.
Also in_atomic() is often used to determine if we may sleep, but it is not
reliable in this use model therefore strongly discourage its use.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update assorted email addresses and related info to point
to a single current, valid address.
additionally
- trivial CREDITS entry updates. (Not that this file means much any more)
- remove arjans dead redhat.com address from powernow driver
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When specifying case we may have comments and/or braces at the end without
actually having a 'statement'. Allow for these to occur in any order.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When ignoring a macro in the middle of a conditional, we need to ignore
the macro start and any continuation lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When reporting some complex trailing statements we report only the
starting line of the error, that tends to imply the shown line is in error
and confuse the reader. As we do know where the actual error is report
that line too with an appropriate gap marker where applicable.
#ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
#1: FILE: Z202.c:1:
+ for (pbh = page_buffers(bh->b_page); pbh != bh;
+ pbh = pbh->b_this_page, key++);
#ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
#4: FILE: Z202.c:4:
+ for (pbh = page_buffers(bh->b_page);
[...]
+ pbh = pbh->b_this_page, key++);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we want to confirm an export is directly after its definition we need
to allow for DEFINE_ style macros. Add these to the execeptions.
Refactor the exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are missing 'simple' values which include square brackets. Refactor to
ensure we handle nesting correctly and detect these simple forms.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we hit and #else or #elif we know we are meeting an alternative piece
of code. All bets are off on indent if we did not see the open of the
control so stop checking.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Within the type checker we have a number of common kernel types which must
be implemented as typedefs. Pull those out so that we can use the same
expressions to trigger exclusions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are likely going to have 24 bit types. Expand the type matcher to
match any size.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We often see macros which define structure members, these are not complex
and necessarily do not have braces or brackets. For example:
#define _PLIST_HEAD_INIT(head) \
.prio_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((head).prio_list), \
.node_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((head).node_list)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we have sufficient context detect and handle do without braces ({).
Else these incorrectly trigger a trailing statements error for the
associated while.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A label is not a candidate for a possible type. Exclude them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A do without braces '{' may trigger a false possible type 'do' and then
this may be interpreted as an external definition of foo():
do
foo();
while (bar);
Add do to the type exclusions. Fix up tests so we can check for them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should only apply source checks to lines within hunks. Checks which
are anchored in the context may falsly trigger in the commentory. Ensure
they only match within valid hunk lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Correct calculation of the number of lines of condition where we have
suspect indent.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Firmware may be included in the kernel as .ihex files. These are
inherantly text, but not source. The line ending checks are applicable to
these kinds of file, allow just these checks to apply to all files.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a
string. Reported by Jaswinder Singh.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When the last hunk of a patch is short it will trigger errors from
checkpatch:
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)
at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 394.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string
at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 397.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)
Avoid touching beyond the last line. Reported by Julien Brunel.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should only be checking changes lines for the trailing statement check
on case/default statements.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
So that we eat our own dog food ensure the indent checks apply to perl
too.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Report the correct lines for single statement blocks. Currently we are
reporting the right number of lines, but not skipping the negative lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure that we handle literal %'s correctly when adjacent to a %Lx.
%Lx bad
%%Lx good
%%%Lx bad
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should skip over and check the lines which follow preprocessor
statements, labels, and blank lines. These all have legitimate reasons to
be indented differently.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are currently only reporting syspect indents if the conditional is
modified but the indent missmatch could be generated by the body changing,
make sure we catch both. Also only report the first line of the body, and
more importantly make sure we report the raw copy of the line. Finally
report the indent levels to make it easier to understand what is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Absolute references to kernel source files are generally only useful
locally to the originator of the patch. Check for any such references and
report them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is much more likely that an architecture file will want to directly
include asm header files. Reduce this WARNING to a CHECK when the
referencing file is in the arch directory.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible to have other include/asm paths within the tree which are
not subject to the do not edit checks. Ignore those.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are not counting the lines in the block correctly which causes the
comment scan to stop prematurly and thus miss comments which end at the
end of the block. Fix this up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Only pull in new extension lines where the current contents ends with a \.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the cacheline alignment modifiers to the attribute lists.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for direct testing of the attribute matcher, add basic tests
for it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is a common and sane idiom to allow a single return on the end of a
case statement:
switch (...) {
case foo: return bar;
}
Add an exception for this.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Labels have different indent rules and must be ignored when checking the
conditional indent levels. Also correct identify labels in single
statement conditionals.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible to use double ampersand (&&) in unary context where it
means the address of a goto label. Handle spacing for it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is wholy reasonable to have square brackets representing array slices
in braces on the same line. These should be spaced.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When checking spacing for pointer checks the type cannot start in the
middle of a word, ie. this is not 'int * bar':
x = fooint * bar;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we have a variants system, move to using that to carry the
unary/binary designation for +, -, &, and *.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add checks for the question mark colon operator spacing, and also check
the other uses of colon. Colon means a number of things:
- it introduces the else part of the ?: operator,
- it terminates a goto label,
- it terminates the case value,
- it separates the identifier from the bit size on bit fields, and
- it is used to introduce option types in asm().
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for multiple modifiers such as:
int __one __two foo;
Also handle trailing known modifiers when defecting modifiers:
int __one foo __read_mostly;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure we do not inadvertantly load known modifiers up as possible types.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure we correctly mark the return type of the pointer to a function
declaration.
const void *(*sb_tag)(struct sysfs_tag_info *info);
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Exclude vmlinux.lds.h from the macro complexity checks. They will never
apply sanely here.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below
we are not correctly matching it as a type. Fix the declaration.
static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order)
{
}
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Improve type matcher debug so we can see what it does match. As part
of this move us to to using the common debug framework.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Correct spelling in the kfree reports.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
usb_free_urb() can take a NULL, so let's check and warn about that.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check to see if the block/statement which a condition or loop introduces
is indented correctly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Extend the trailing statement checks to report a trailing semi-colon ';'
as we really want it on the next line and indented so it is really really
obvious. Also extend the tests to include while and for.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check on the spacing before square brackets. We should only allow spaces
there if this is part of a type definition or an initialialiser.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Report trailing statements on case and default lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow printk strings to break the 80 character width limits, thus keeping
them complete and searchable.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix end of statement location. Where the last line of the statement is
replaced we are miss reporting the newly added replacement an incorrectly
indented trailing statement for the negative context. We are also
incorrectly reporting negative statements generally.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are incorrectly counting the lines in a block while accumulating
the trailing lines in a macro statement, leading to false positives.
Fix end of block handling and general counting for negative context lines.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we see a goto we enter unary context. For example:
goto *h;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When looking for an associated comment they may be suffixed by a macro
continuation. Ignore this.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are false matching __asm__ as a type, and then tripping the external
function checks. Squash.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some types such as typedefs may overlap real identifiers. Be more
targetted about when a type can really exist. Where it cannot let it be
an identifier. This prevents false reporting of the minus '-' in unary
context in the following:
foo[bar->bool - 1];
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Casts require parentheses so it is possible to have something like this:
return (int)(*a);
This miss trips the complexity function. Ensure that the two separate
parenthesised sections are not coelesced.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version is a bit of a whopper. This version brings a few new checks,
improvements to a number of checks mostly through modifications to the
way types are parsed, several fixes to quote/comment handling, as well as
the usual slew of fixes for false positives.
Of note:
- return is not a function and is now reported,
- preprocessor directive detection is loosened to match C99 standard,
- we now intuit new type modifiers, and
- comment handling is much improved
Andy Whitcroft (18):
Version: 0.19
fix up a couple of missing newlines in reports
colon to parenthesis spacing varies on asm
values: #include is a preprocessor statement
quotes: fix single character quotes at line end
add typedef exception for the non-pointer "function types"
kerneldoc parameters must be on one line, relax line length
types: word boundary is not always required
improved #define bracketing reports
uninitialized_var is an annotation not a function name
possible types: add possible modifier handling
possible types: fastcall is a type modifier
types: unsigned is not a modifier on all types
static/external initialisation to zero should allow modifiers
checkpatch: fix recognition of preprocessor directives -- part 2
comments: fix inter-hunk comment tracking
return is not a function
do not report include/asm/foo.h use in include/linux/foo.h
return is not a function -- tighten test
[jengelh@computergmbh.de: fix recognition of preprocessor directives]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a few fixes for the extern checks, and a couple of
new checks.
Of note:
- false is now recognised as a 0 assignment in static/external
assignments,
- printf format strings including %L are reported,
- a number of fixes for the extern in .c file detector which had
temporarily lost its ability to detect variables; undetected due to
the loss of its test.
Andy Whitcroft (8):
Version: 0.18
false should trip 0 assignment checks
tests: reinstate missing tests
tests: allow specification of the file extension for a test
fix extern checks for variables
check for and report %Lu, %Ld, and %Li
ensure we only start a statement on lines with some content
extern spacing
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings improvements to external declaration detection, fixes to
quote tracking, fixes to unary tracking, some clarification of wording, and
the usual slew of fixes for false positives.
Of note:
- much better unary tracking across preprocessor directives
- UTF8 checks highlight the character at fault
- widening of mutex detection
Andy Whitcroft (17):
Version: 0.17
values: __attribute__ carries through the previous type
quotes: should only follow "positive" lines
clarify the indent tabs over spaces wording
loosen NR_CPUS check for array range initialisers
detect external function declarations without an extern prefix
function declaration arguments should be with the identifier
DEFINE_MUTEX should report in line with struct mutex
NR_CPUS is valid in preprocessor statements
comment detection should not start on the @@ line
types: add support for #undef
tighten mutex/completion reports to usage
allow export of function pointers
values: preprocessor #define is out of line maintain values
values: #define does not always have parentheses
unary '*' may be const
utf8 checks should report location of the invalid character
Wolfram Sang (1):
make checkpatch.pl really skip <asm/irq.h>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings proper quote tracking across lines, and brings the
handling of comments into the same mechanism ensuring nesting is correctly
handled. It brings the usual flurry of fixes for false positives. It also
brings a number of new checks. The most contentious change will likely be
the checks for NR_CPUS as this throws some new warnings in kernel/sched.c.
Of note:
- all new quote tracking across lines
- all new comment tracking
- new more direct, less ambigious wording for some warnings
- recommends mutexes and completions over semaphores
- recommends strict_strto* over simple_strto*
- report on direct use of NR_CPUS
Andy Whitcroft (22):
Version: 0.16
string quote tracking should cross line boundaries
check spacing round -> correctly across newlines
checks for linux/ against asm/ include files should be warnings
standardise on 'required' and 'prohibited'
take the first end of condition when parsing statements
values: cope with unbalanced brackets
preprocessor #elif is not a function
preprocessor #if should not trigger trailing statement checks
test: allow us to limit output to a single error
recommend real mutexes over semaphores
asm checks should mirror those for __asm__
warn on semaphores being used in place of completions
trailing ; on control structure should ignore do {} while ();
recommend strict_strtoX over simple_strtoX
redo comment handling as a quote type
use of NR_CPUS is normally wrong
consistant spacing should only be about spaces
if brace check suppression should only apply to the top-levels
use tr/// to align spacing for operators
move to using four parameter form of substr
check and report modifications to include/asm
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of minor fixes updating the type detector and
the unary tracker. It also brings a few small fixes for false positives.
It also reverts the --file warning. Of note:
- limit CVS checks to added lines
- improved type detections
- fixes to the unary tracker
Andy Whitcroft (13):
Version: 0.15
EXPORT_SYMBOL checks need to accept array variables
export checks must match DECLARE_foo and LIST_HEAD
possible types: cleanup debugging missing line
values: track values through preprocessor conditional paths
typeof is actually a type
possible types: detect definitions which cross lines
values: include line numbers on value debug information
values: ensure we find correctly record pending brackets
values: simplify the brace history stack
CVS keyword checks should only apply to added lines
loosen spacing for comments
allow braces for single statement blocks with multiline conditionals
Harvey Harrison (1):
checkpatch: remove fastcall
Ingo Molnar (1):
checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Uwe Kleine-Koenig (1):
fix typo "goot" -> "good"
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings the remainder of the queued fixes. A number of fixes
for items missed reported by Andrew Morton and others. Also a handful
of new checks and fixes for false positives. Of note:
- new warning associated with --file to try and avoid cleanup only patches,
- corrected handling of completly empty files,
- corrected report handling with multiple files,
- handling of possible types in the face of multiple declarations,
- detection of unnessary braces on complex if statements (where present), and
- all new comment spacing handling.
Andi Kleen (1):
Introduce a warning when --file mode is used
Andy Whitcroft (14):
Version: 0.14
clean up some space violations in checkpatch.pl
a completly empty file should not provoke a whinge
reset report lines buffers between files
unary ++/-- may abutt close braces
__typeof__ is also unary
comments: revamp comment handling
add --summary-file option adding filename to summary line
trailing backslashes are not trailing statements
handle operators passed as parameters such as to ASSERTCMP
possible types -- enhance debugging
check for boolean operations with constants
possible types: handle multiple declarations
detect and report if statements where all branches are single statements
Arjan van de Ven (1):
quiet option should not print the summary on no errors
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
warn about using __FUNCTION__
Timur Tabi (1):
loosen spacing checks for __asm__
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a large number of fixes which have built up over
the Christmas period. Mostly these are fixes for false positives, both
through improvments to unary checks and possible type detection. It
also brings new checks for while location and CVS keywords. Of note:
- a number of fixes to unary detection
- detection of a number of new forms of types to improve type matching
- better inline handling
- recognision of '%' as an operator
Andy Whitcroft (28):
Version: 0.13
unary detection: maintain bracket state across lines
move to pre-sanitising the entire file
the text of a #error statement should be treated like it is in quotes
line sanitisation needs to target double backslash correctly
tighten comment guestimation for lines starting ' * '
debug: add a debug framework
prevent unclosed single quotes from spreading
add % as an operator
the text of a #warning statement should be treated like it is in quotes
possible matching applies in typedefs
single statement block checks must not trigger when two or more statements
possible types: local variables may also be const
treat inline as a type attribute to even when out of place
possible types: sparse annotations are valid indicators
possible types: beef up the possible type testing
check for hanging while statements on the wrong line
utf8 checks need to occur against the raw lines
function brace checks should use any whitespece matches
comments should take up space in the line when sanitised
remove debugging from if assignment checks
possible types -- ensure we detect all pointer casts
fix tests for function spacing in the presence of #define
clean up the UTF-8 error message to be clearer
test-lib: invert the status report, output success counts
detect and report CVS keywords
tests: break out tests
Add $Id$ to the CVS keyword checks
Benny Halevy (1):
checkpatch.pl: recognize the #elif preprocessor directive
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
print the filenames of patches where available
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
Fix missing \n in checkpatch.pl
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a new terse output mode as well as many improvements to
the unary detection and bare type regcognition. It also brings the usual
updates for false positives, though these seem to be slowing markedly
now that the unary detector is no longer just putting its finger in the
air and guessing. Of note:
- new --terse mode producing a single line per report
- loosening of the block brace checks
- new checks for enum/union/struch brace placements
- hugely expanded "bare type" detection
- checks for inline usage
- better handling of already open comment blocks
- handle patches which introduce or remove lines without newlines
Andy Whitcroft (19):
Version: 0.12
style fixes as spotted by checkpatch
add a --terse options of a single line of output per report
block brace checks should only apply for single line blocks
all new bare type detector
check spacing for open braces with enum, union and struct
check for LINUX_VERSION_CODE
macros definition bracketing checks need to ignore -ve context
clean up the mail-back mode, -q et al
expand possible type matching to declarations
allow const and sparse annotations on possible types
handle possible types as regular types everywhere
prefer plain inline over __inline__ and __inline
all new open comment detection
fix up conditional extraction for if assignment checks
add const to the possible type matcher
unary checks: a for loop is a conditional too
possible types: detect function pointer definitions
handle missind newlines at end of file, report addition
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a more cautious checkpatch.pl by default. The more
subjective checks are only applied with the --strict option. It also
brings the usual slew of corrections for false positives. Of note:
- new tree detection, the source tree will be found via the executable
- a major revamp of the unary detection to make it more parser like
- a new summary at the bottom of the report
- --strict option for subjective checks
- --file to enable checking on complete files
- support for use in emacs "compile" window
Andy Whitcroft (27):
Version: 0.11
fix up cat_vet for the case where there are no control characters
any cast to a pointer introduces a type
cpp unary operator detection needs to float
attributes are also valid in type definitions
sizeof may be a bareword and makes its argument unary
unary checks for #ifdef et al need to find end of line
add new --file mode to handle raw source files
add --strict/--subjective which enables the subjective tests
add some additional standard type suffixes
cpp #elif is also a unary prefix
case is not a function name
widen asm volatile exceptions
__kprobes is a type attribute
typeof is a unary operator
function open parenthesis checks should check all occurances
expand sizeof() binary exceptions
linux/irq.h should not be recommended
work harder to find the kernel root and add --root=
fix --emacs mode line numbers and string concatenation warnings
add a summary to the bottom of the main report
loosen assignment in if checks
update operator spacing to maintain tabs in output
revamp unary detection
corruption/line wrapped patches need only reporting once
revamp s/u/be/le 8/16/32/64 bit types
handle missing ,1 in uni-diff header
Mike D. Day (2):
Adds support to checkpatch.pl for running in the emacs compile window.
checkpatch: Fix line number reporting
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- better categorisation and space checks for dual use unary/binary
operators
- warn on deprecated use of {SPIN,RW}_LOCK_UNLOCKED
- check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
- detect DOS line endings
- detect redundant casts for kalloc()
Andy Whitcroft (18):
Version: 0.10
asmlinkage is also a storage type
pull out inline specifiers
allow only some operators before a unary operator
parenthesised values may span line ends
add additional attribute matching
handle sparse annotations within pointer type space checks
support alternative function definition syntax for typedefs
check if/for/while with trailing ';' for hanging statements
fix output format for case checks
deprecate SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED
allow complex macros with bracketing braces
detect and report DOS line endings
fastcall is a valid function attribute
bracket spacing is ok for 'for'
categorise operators into unary/binary/definitions
add heuristic to pick up on unannotated types
remove spurious warnings from cat_vet
Dave Jones (1):
Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- checks for spacing on round and square bracket combinations
- loosening of the single statement brace checks, to allow
them when they contain comments or where other blocks in a
compound statement have them.
- parks the multple declaration support
- allows architecture defines in architecture specific headers
Andy Whitcroft (21):
Version: 0.09
loosen single statement brace checks
fix up multiple declaration to avoid function arguments
add some function space parenthesis check exceptions
handle EXPORT_'s with parentheses in their names
clean up some warnings in multi-line macro bracketing support
park the multiple declaration checks
make block brace checks count comments as a statement
__volatile__ and __extension__ are not functions
allow architecture specific defined within architecture includes
check spacing on square brackets
check spacing on parentheses
ensure we apply checks to the part before start comment
check #ifdef conditional spacing
handle __init_refok and __must_check
add noinline to inline checks
prevent email addresses from tripping spacing checks
handle typed initialiser spacing
handle line contination as end of line
add bool to the type matcher
refine EXPORT_SYMBOL checks to handle pointers
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- warnings for multiple assignments per line
- warnings for multiple declarations per line
- checks for single statement blocks with braces
This patch includes an update for feature-removal-schedule.txt to
better target checks.
Andy Whitcroft (12):
Version: 0.08
only apply printk checks where there is a string literal
allow suppression of errors for when no patch is found
warn about multiple assignments
warn on declaration of multiple variables
check for kfree() with needless null check
check for single statement braced blocks
check for aggregate initialisation on the next line
handle the => operator
check for spaces between function name and open parenthesis
move to explicit Check: entries in feature-removal-schedule.txt
handle pointer attributes
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase
positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use. Of
note:
- checks for documentation for new __setup calls
- clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved
- reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing
- reports on unwanted externs
This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl
itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it
is not intended as the final arbitor of style.
Full changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (19):
Version: 0.07
ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives
add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher
accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;)
report new externs in .c files
fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes
else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line
add enums to the type matcher
add missing check descriptions
suppress double reporting of ** spacing
report on do{ spacing issues
include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output
check for spacing after closing braces
prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues
handle blank continuation lines on macros
classify all reports error, warning, or check
revamp hanging { checks and apply in context
no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok
check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation
David Woodhouse (1):
limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update to checkpatch.pl v0.06. Of note:
- do { and else handled correctly as control structures for { matching
- trailing whitespace correctly tripped when line otherwise empty
- support for const, including const foo * const bar
- multiline macros defining values correctly reported
This version of checkpatch.pl can be found at the following URL:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-0.06
Full Changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (14):
Version: 0.06
cleanup the Type regular expression declarations
fix up block counting
end of line counts as a space for ++ and --
do { needs the same checks as if, for et al
handle "const foo * const a" as a valid type
add spacing checks following ;
complete whitespace lines should trip trailing whitespace check
else is also a block control structure
badly formatted else can trip function declaration
detect and report trailing statements after else
types need to be terminated by a boundary
multiline macros defining values should be surrounded by parentheses
soften the wording of the Signed-off-by: warnings
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a some new tests, and a host of changes to fix
false positives, of particular note:
- detect 'var ++;' and 'var --;' as a bad combination
- multistatement #defines are now checked based on statement count
- multistatement #defines with initialisation correctly reported
- checks the location of the inline keywords
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for variables are now understood
- typedefs are loosened to handle sparse etc
This version of checkpatch.pl can be found at the following URL:
http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-0.05
Full Changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (18):
Version: 0.05
macro definition checks should be for a single statement
avoid assignements only in if conditionals
declarations of function pointers need no space
multiline macros which are purely initialisation cannot be wrapped
EXPORT_SYMBOL can also directly follow a variable definition
check on the location of the inline keyword
EXPORT_SYMBOL needs to allow for attributes
ensure we do not find C99 // in strings
handle malformed #include lines
accept the {0,} form
typedefs are sensible for defining function pointer parameters
ensure { handling correctly handles nested switch() statements
trailing whitespace checks are not anchored
typedefs for sparse bitwise annotations make sense
update the type matcher to include sparse annotations
clean up indent and spacing
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a some new tests, and a host of changes to fix
false positives, of particular note:
- check for and report #if 0
- extend checking of line lengths and spacing for .pl, .sh etc
- extends the pointer type checks to multiple levels
- updates printk handling to track newlines
- adds a wrapped patch detector
- drops the leading component of the filenames
- extends switch indent handling to switch statmentes rooted in
the context
- adds foo * bar single pointer checks
This version of checkpatch.pl can be found at the following URL:
http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-0.04
Full Changelog:
Andy Whitcroft (16):
allow checking line lengths and spacing on other source files
clean up that whitespace
sanitise the input line standardising the content of quotes
clean up pointer type * and space checks
fix up the sanitiser so it maintains the line length
apply the printk facility checks only to the first printk in a set
switch/case indent checks may anchor in the context
add a wrapped patch detector
put the #ifdef in C file checks on ice
asm volatile is acceptable
check for and report #if 0
drop the leading component of the filename as patches are -p1
use the original line when reporting operator errors
correct spelling of Joel's name
Version: 0.04
add support for struct foo * bar checks
Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
Fix checkpatch.pl name in usage template
Randy Dunlap (1):
checkpatch: produce fewer lines of output
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Produce one less line of output per flagged incident.
Change this:
use tabs not spaces
PATCH: /home/rddunlap/arcmsr1200014.patch4:756:
FILE: b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:1843:
+ return PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET;$
to this:
use tabs not spaces
#756: FILE: b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:1843:
+ return PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET;$
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings a host of changes to cure false positives and
bugs detected on patches submitted to lkml and -mm. It also brings
a number of new tests in response to reviews, of particular note:
- catch use of volatile
- allow deprecated functions to be listed in feature-removal-schedule.txt
- warn about #ifdef's in c files
- check that spinlock_t and struct mutex use is commented
- report on architecture specific defines being used
- report memory barriers without an associated comment
Full changelog:
catch use of volatile
convert other quoted string checks to common routine
alloc deprecated functions to be listed in feature-removal-schedule.txt
split out the line length and indent for each line
improve switch block handling
handle GNU diff context lines with no leading space
warn about #ifdef's in c files
tidy up tests for signed-off-by using raw mode
check that spinlock_t and struct mutex use is commented
syntax checks for open brace placement may drop off the bottom of hunk
report memory barriers without an associated comment
when a sign off is present but ugly do not report it missing
do not mistake bitfield definitions for indented labels
report on architecture specific defines being used
major update to the operator checks
prevent switch/if/while etc matching foo_switch
generify assignement in condition error message
introduce an operator context marker
Version: 0.03
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl should be executable, make it so.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.
As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches