Using break; after a goto or return is unnecessary so emit a warning
when the break is at the same indent level.
So this emits a warning on:
switch (foo) {
case 1:
goto err;
break;
}
but not on:
switch (foo) {
case 1:
if (bar())
goto err;
break;
}
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>
Whenever files are added, moved, or deleted, the MAINTAINERS file
patterns can be out of sync or outdated.
To try to keep MAINTAINERS more up-to-date, add a one-time warning
whenever a patch does any of those.
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>
Commit logs have various forms of commit id references.
Try to standardize on a 12 character long lower case commit id along
with a description of parentheses and the quoted subject line.
ie: commit 0123456789ab ("commit description")
If git and a git tree exists, look up the commit id and emit the
appropriate line as part of the message.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Requested-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>
Avoid matching allocs that appear to be known small multiplications of a
sizeof with a constant because gcc as of 4.8 cannot optimize the code in
a calloc() exactly the same way as an alloc().
Look for numeric constants or what appear to be upper case only macro
#defines.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Original-patch-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This --strict test previously worked only for what appeared to be cast
to pointer types.
Make it work for all casts.
Also, there's no reason to show the previous line for this type of
message, so don't.
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's $Type variable does not match declarations of multiple
const * types.
This can produce false positives for things like:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#60: FILE: drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h:60:
+ const struct comedi_lrange *range_table;
+ const struct comedi_lrange *const *range_table_list;
Fix the $Type variable to support matching multiple "* const" uses.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Editing Kconfig dependencies can emit unnecessary messages about missing
or too short help entries.
Only emit the message when adding help sections to Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a --strict test asking for a blank line after
function/struct/union/enum declarations.
Allow exceptions for several attributes and macro 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>
There are some patches created by git format-patch that when scanned by
checkpatch report errors on lines like
To: address.tld
This is a checkpatch false positive.
Improve the logic a bit to ignore folded email headers to avoid emitting
these messages.
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>
Using an else following a break or return can unnecessarily indent code
blocks.
ie:
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
int foo = bar();
if (foo < 1)
break;
else
usleep(1);
}
is generally better written as:
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
int foo = bar();
if (foo < 1)
break;
usleep(1);
}
Warn when a bare else statement is preceded by a break or return
indented 1 tab more than the else.
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>
Logging messages that show some type of "out of memory" error are
generally unnecessary as there is a generic message and a stack dump
done by the memory subsystem.
These messages generally increase kernel size without much added value.
Emit a warning on these types of messages.
This test looks for any inserted message function, then looks at the
previous line for an "if (!foo)" or "if (foo == NULL)" test and then
looks at the preceding statement for an allocation function like "foo =
kmalloc()"
ie: this code matches:
foo = kmalloc();
if (foo == NULL) {
printk("Out of memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
This test is very crude and incomplete.
This test can miss quite a lot of of OOM messages that do not have this
specific form.
ie: this code does not match:
foo = kmalloc();
if (!foo) {
rtn = -ENOMEM;
printk("Out of memory!\n");
goto out;
}
This test could also be a false positive when the logging message itself
does not specify anything about memory, but I did not find any false
positives in my limited testing.
spatch could be a better solution but correctness seems non-trivial for
that tool too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
