Functions like this one are evil:
void foo()
{
...
}
Because these functions allow variadic arguments without
checking the arguments at all.
Original patch by Richard Weinberger.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a simple check that any compatible strings in DeviceTree dts
files are present in Documentation/devicetree/bindings. Vendor prefixes
are also checked for existing in vendor-prefixes.txt These should be
temporary checks until we have more sophisticated binding schema
checking.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.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>
This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL
copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the
references to the gnu.org/licenses URL which appears to be used in
numerous drivers. The idea is to still allow some reference to an
external copy of the GPL in the event that files are copied out of the
kernel tree without the COPYING file.
So for example this statement will still return an error:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
However, this statement will not return an error after this patch:
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.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 FSF address check is a bit too verbose looking for the GPL text.
Quiet it a bit by requiring --strict for the GPL bit.
Also make the address tests match a few uses of abbreviations for street
names and make it case insensitive.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.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>
This test should remove all the spaces before a tab not just one space.
Substitute a tab for each 8 space block before a tab and remove less than
8 spaces before a tab.
This SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test is done after CODE_INDENT.
If there are spaces used at the beginning of a line that should be
converted to tabs, please make sure that the CODE_INDENT test and
conversion is done before this SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test and conversion.
Reported-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.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>
switch case statements missing a break statement are an unfortunately
common error.
e.g.:
commit 4a2c94c9b6 ("HID: kye: Add report fixup for Genius Manticore Keyboard")
case blocks should end in a break/return/goto/continue.
If a fall-through is used, it should have a comment showing that it is
intentional. Ideally that comment should be something like:
"/* fall-through */"
Add a test to look for missing break statements.
This looks only at the context lines before an inserted case so it's
possible to have false positives when the context contains a close brace
and the break is before the brace and not part of the patch context.
Looking at recent patches, this is a pretty rare occurrence. The normal
kernel style uses a break as the last line of the previous block.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perche.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gfp.h and page_alloc.c already specify that __GFP_NOFAIL is deprecated and
no new users should be added.
Add a warning to checkpatch to catch this.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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 "space before a non-naked semicolon" test has unwanted output when
used in "for ( ;; )" loops.
Make the test work only on end-of-line statement termination semicolons.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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>
The current checkpatch test for split strings does not find several
cases that should be found.
For instance:
/* Else poor success; go back to mode in "active" table */
} else {
IWL_DEBUG_RATE(mvm,
- "LQ: GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE suc=%d cur-tpt=%d old-tpt=%d\n",
+ "GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE: SR %d "
+ "cur-tpt %d old-tpt %d\n",
window->success_ratio,
window->average_tpt,
lq_sta->last_tpt);
does not currently emit a warning.
Improve the test to find these cases.
Add more exceptions to reduce false positives for assembly and octal/hex
string constants.
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>
Prefer use of the direct definition of struct pci_device_id instead of
indirection via macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.
Update the PCI documentation to deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE. Update
checkpatch adding --fix option.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
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>
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>