It's very common to have normal block comments for the initial comments
of a file description preface.
So for files in drivers/net and net/ don't emit a warning when the first
comment block in the file uses the normal block comment style and not
the networking block comment style.
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>
static const char* arrays create smaller text as each function call does
not have to populate the array.
Emit a warning when char *arrays aren't static const and the array is
not apparently global by being declared in the first column.
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 could not distinguish between a variable in a struct named
jiffies and the normal jiffies.
foo->jiffies
would emit a "Comparing jiffies" arning.
Update the $Compare variable to do a negative look-behind for "-" when
finding a ">" so that a pointer dereference like -> isn't a comparison.
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>
Emit a warning when using any of these __constant_<foo> forms:
__constant_cpu_to_be[x]
__constant_cpu_to_le[x]
__constant_be[x]_to_cpu
__constant_le[x]_to_cpu
__constant_htons
__constant_ntohs
Using any of these outside of include/uapi/ isn't preferred as using the
function without __constant_ is identical when the argument is a
constant.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
umode_t permissions are sometimes mistakenly written with decimal
constants. Verify that numeric permissions are using octal.
Add a list of the most commonly used functions and macros that have
umode_t permissions and the argument position.
Add a $Octal type to $Constant.
Allow $LvalOrFunc to be a pointer indirection too.
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>
Checks for some function pointer return styles are too strict. Fix
them.
Multiple spaces after function pointer return types are allowed.
int (*foo)(int bar)
Spaces after function pointer returns of pointer types are not required.
int *(*foo)(int bar)
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>
Holger reported:
: The macro udelay cannot handle large values because of loss-of-precision.
:
: IMHO udelay on ARM is broken, because it also cannot work with fast
: ARM processors (where bogomips >= 3355, which is in sight now). It's
: just not broken enough that someone did something against it ... so
: the current kludge is good enough.
Until then, warn on long udelay uses.
Also fix uses of $line that should have been $herecurr.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Include appropriate header file include/linux/decompress/inflate.h in
lib/decompress_inflate.c because it has prototype declaration of
function defined in lib/decompress_inflate.c.
Also, fix the guard around the header file
include/linux/decompress/inflate.h to use a more unique guard symbol.
This avoids conflict with the INFLATE_H defined by
zlib_inflate/inflate.h.
This eliminates the following warning in lib/decompress_inflate.c:
lib/decompress_inflate.c:35:17: warning: no previous prototype for `gunzip' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.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>
Add prototype declarations of functions in lib/clz_ctz.c. These
functions are required by GCC builtins and hence can not be removed
despite of their unreferenced appearance in kernel source.
This eliminates the following warning in lib/clz_ctz.c:
lib/clz_ctz.c:16:12: warning: no previous prototype for `__ctzsi2' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
lib/clz_ctz.c:22:12: warning: no previous prototype for `__clzsi2' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
lib/clz_ctz.c:44:12: warning: no previous prototype for `__clzdi2' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
lib/clz_ctz.c:50:12: warning: no previous prototype for `__ctzdi2' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These are just some very minor and misc cleanups in the PRNG. In
prandom_u32() we store the result in an unsigned long which is
unnecessary as it should be u32 instead that we get from
prandom_u32_state(). prandom_bytes_state()'s comment is in kdoc format,
so change it into such as it's done everywhere else. Also, use the
normal comment style for the header comment. Last but not least for
readability, add some newlines.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.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>
Having a discussion about sparse warnings in the kernel, and that we
should clean them up, I decided to pick a random file to do so. This
happened to be devres.c which gives the following warnings:
CHECK lib/devres.c
lib/devres.c:83:9: warning: cast removes address space of expression
lib/devres.c:117:31: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different address spaces)
lib/devres.c:117:31: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*
lib/devres.c:117:31: got void *
lib/devres.c:125:31: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different address spaces)
lib/devres.c:125:31: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*
lib/devres.c:125:31: got void *
lib/devres.c:136:26: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
lib/devres.c:136:26: expected void [noderef] <asn:2>*[assigned] dest_ptr
lib/devres.c:136:26: got void *
lib/devres.c:226:9: warning: cast removes address space of expression
Mostly it's just the use of typecasting to void * without adding
__force, or returning ERR_PTR(-ESOMEERR) without typecasting to a
__iomem type.
I added a helper macro IOMEM_ERR_PTR() that does the typecast to make
the code a little nicer than adding ugly typecasts to the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches
Rashika Kheria
Daniel Borkmann
Steven Rostedt
Jingoo Han