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>
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>
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>
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>
