Add an exception to the return before else warning when the line
following it is also a return like:
if (foo)
return bar;
else
return baz;
This form of a test then return is at least as readable as
if (foo)
return bar;
return baz;
so don't emit a warning on the first form.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Elshad Mustafayev <elshadimo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
common in the kernel:
backword backwords
invalide valide
recieves
singed unsinged
While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.
In the 13830 commits between 3.15 and 3.16, the script would have noticed
560 spelling mistakes. The top 25 are shown here:
$ git log --pretty=oneline v3.15..v3.16 | wc -l
13830
$ git log --format='%H' v3.15..v3.16 | \
while read commit ; do \
echo "commit $commit" ; \
git log --format=email --stat -p -1 $commit | \
./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=typo_spelling --no-summary - ; \
done | tee spell_v3.15..v3.16.txt | grep "may be misspelled" | \
awk '{print $2}' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
21 'seperate'
17 'endianess'
15 'sucess'
13 'noticable'
11 'occured'
11 'accomodate'
10 'interrup'
9 'prefered'
8 'unecessary'
8 'explicitely'
7 'supress'
7 'overriden'
7 'immediatly'
7 'funtion'
7 'defult'
7 'childs'
6 'succesful'
6 'splitted'
6 'specifc'
6 'reseting'
6 'recieve'
6 'changable'
5 'tmis'
5 'singed'
5 'preceeding'
Thanks to Joe Perches for rewrites, suggestions, additional misspelling
entries, and testing.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Macros with flow control statements (goto and return) are not very nice to
read as any flow movement is unexpected.
Try to highlight them and emit a warning on their definition.
Avoid warning on macros that use argument concatenation as those macros
commonly create another function where the concatenation is used in the
function name definition like:
#define FOO_FUNC(name, rtn_type) \
rtn_type func##name(arg1, ...) \
{ \
rtn_type rtn; \
[code...] \
return rtn; \
}
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 a space between concatenated string elements is easier for a human
to read.
ie:
"String"FOO"bar"
is easier to read as:
"String" FOO "bar"
So suggest this style with a --strict command line option.
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 script is used by many other projects, and in some of them the
requirement of at least 4 line long description for all Kconfig items is
excessive. This patch adds a command line option to control the required
minimum length.
Tested running this script over a patch including a two line config
description. The script generated a warning when invoked as is, and did
not generate it when invoked with --min-conf-desc-length=2.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.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>
When run on *.dtsi or *.dts files, the whitespace checks were skipped,
while they are valid for DTS files. Hence stop skipping them.
I ran checkpatch on all in-tree DTS files, and didn't notice any error or
warning messages that are inappropriate for DTS files.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
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>
Several architectures (e.g. x86, MIPS, Blackfin) have asm/reboot.h and
asm/time.h header files, which are not included in linux/reboot.h and
linux/time.h headers. This lead to generation of false positive errors.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.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>
The general form for commit id and description is
'Commit <12+hexdigits> ("commit description/subject line")'
but commit logs often have relatively long commit ids and the commit
description emds on the next line like:
Some explanation as to why commit <12+hexdigits>
("commit foo description/subject line") is improved.
Allow this form.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Checkpatch currently warns if a git commit ID (in the changelog,
usually) is less than 12 characters or more than 16. The "more than 16"
is excessive. Change the check so we accept IDs from 12 to 40 chars in
length.
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using uninitialized_var reports a false positive for "Missing blank line
after declarations".
Fix it by adding uninitialized_var to the $declaration_macros exceptions
list.
Move the macro list after $Type is declared.
Add optional prefixes to DECLARE_<FOO> and DEFINE_<BAR>
macro declarations to allow forms like:
MLX4_DECLARE_DOORBELL_LOCK
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Checkpatch already complains when people break up quoted strings but
it's still pretty common. One mistake that people often make is they
leave out the space character between the two strings.
This check adds around 450 new warnings and has a low rate of false
positives.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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>
Commit 89da401f6cff ("checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test")
in -next improved the cast test for non pointer types, but also
introduced false positives for some types of static inlines.
Add a test for an open brace to the exclusions to avoid these false
positives.
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>
Using --file mode can give false positives with MISSING_BREAK
fall-through warnings on simple but long multiple consecutive case
statements.
Look for all lines before a case statement for a switch or a statement
when using --file mode.
Fix a misspelling of preceded while there.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
c90 section "6.7.2 Type Specifiers" says:
"type specifiers may occur in any order"
That means that:
short int is the same as int short
unsigned short int is the same as int unsigned short
etc...
checkpatch currently parses only a subset of these allowed types.
For instance: "unsigned short" and "signed short" are found by
checkpatch as a specific type, but none of the or "int short" or "int
signed short" variants are found.
Add another table for the "kernel style misordered" variants.
Add this misordered table to the findable types.
Warn when the misordered style is used.
This improves the "Missing a blank line after declarations" test as it
depends on the correct parsing of the $Declare variable which looks for
"$Type $Ident;" (ie: declarations like "int foo;").
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>
short int is one of the 6.7.2 c90 types.
Find it appropriately.
This fixes a defect in checkpatch where it suggests that a line break
after declaration is required using an input like:
int foo;
short int bar;
Without this change, it warns on the short int line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.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>
Add --fix corrections for ELSE_AFTER_BRACE and WHILE_AFTER_BRACE
misuses.
if (x) {
...
}
else {
...
}
is corrected to
if (x) {
...
} else {
...
}
and
do {
...
}
while (x);
is corrected to
do {
...
} while (x);
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>
Style misuses of these types are corrected:
typedef struct foo
{
int bar;
};
int foo(int bar) { return bar+1;
}
int foo(int bar) {
return bar+1;
}
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 copied the which subroutine from get_maintainer.pl.
Unfortunately, get_maintainer uses a 4 space indentation so use the
proper tab indentation instead.
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>