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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f15c323397 scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
It is easy to forget adding/removing entries at the
Documentation/00-INDEX file. In a matter of fact, even before
ReST conversion, people use to forget adding things here, as
there are lots of missing stuff out there.

Now that we're doing a hard work converting entries to ReST,
and while this hole file is not outdated, it is good to have
some tool that would help to verify that this file is kept
updated.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-12-05 14:21:24 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
917fef6f7e Merge tag 'v4.9-rc4' into sound
Bring in -rc4 patches so I can successfully merge the sound doc changes.
2016-11-18 16:13:41 -07:00
Jani Nikula
0c9aa20957 kernel-doc: add support for one line inline struct member doc comments
kernel-doc supports documenting struct members "inline" since
a4c6ebede2 ("scripts/kernel-doc Allow struct arguments documentation
in struct body"). This requires the inline kernel-doc comments to have
the opening and closing comment markers (/** and */ respectively) on
lines of their own, even for short comments. For example:

	/**
	 * struct foo - struct documentation
	 */
	struct foo {
		/**
		 * @bar: member documentation
		 */
		int bar;
	};

Add support for one line inline comments:

	/**
	 * struct foo - struct documentation
	 */
	struct foo {
		/** @bar: member documentation */
		int bar;
	};

Note that mixing of the two in one doc comment is not allowed; either
both comment markers must be on lines of their own, or both must be on
the one line. This limitation keeps both the comments more uniform, and
kernel-doc less complicated.

Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-16 16:30:27 -07:00
Kees Cook
58bea4144d latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variables
The stack frame size could grow too large when the plugin used long long
on 32-bit architectures when the given function had too many basic blocks.

The gcc warning was:

drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c: In function 'ibmphp_access_ebda':
drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c:409:1: warning: the frame size of 1108 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

This switches latent_entropy from u64 to unsigned long.

Thanks to PaX Team and Emese Revfy for the patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-31 11:30:41 -07:00
Kees Cook
da7389ac6c gcc-plugins: Export symbols needed by gcc
This explicitly exports symbols that gcc expects from plugins.

Based on code from Emese Revfy.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-31 10:40:13 -07:00
Silvio Fricke
c950a1739e kernel-doc: better parsing of named variable arguments
Without this patch we get warnings for named variable arguments.

    warning: No description found for parameter '...'
    warning: Excess function parameter 'args' description in 'alloc_ordered_workqueue'

Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28 10:54:16 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8c27ceff36 docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
9ffc66941d Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-15 10:03:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
50cff89837 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few patches on the kbuild.git#misc branch this time:

   - New Coccinelle patch by Nicholas Mc Guire
   - Existing patch fixes by Julia Lawall
   - Minor comment fix by Markus Elfring"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  Coccinelle: flag conditions with no effect
  scripts/coccicheck: Update reference for the corresponding documentation
  Coccinelle: pm_runtime: ensure relevance of pm_runtime reports
  Coccinelle: limit memdup_user transformation to GFP_KERNEL case
2016-10-14 15:03:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
84d69848c9 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
Mathieu Maret
d0c75f33f0 scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM
Vim, with the omnicppcomplete(#1) plugin, can do code completion using
information build by ctags.  Add flags needed by omnicppcomplete(#2) to
have completion on member of structure.

1: https://github.com/vim-scripts/omnicppcomplete
2: https://github.com/vim-scripts/OmniCppComplete/blob/master/doc/omnicppcomplete.txt#L93

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830191546.4469-1-mathieu.maret@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Maret <mathieu.maret@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Joe Perches
459cf0ae5d checkpatch: improve the octal permissions tests
The function calls with octal permissions commonly span multiple lines.
The current test is line oriented and fails to find some matches.

Make the test use the $stat variable instead of the $line variable to span
multiple lines.

Also add a few functions to the known functions with permissions list.

Move the SYMBOLIC_PERMS test to a separate section to find all the S_<FOO>
permissions in any form not just those that have specific function names.

This can now find and fix permissions uses like:
     .mode = S_<FOO> | S_<BAR>;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b51bab60530912aae4ac420119d465c5b206f19f.1475030406.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Ramiro Oliveira <roliveir@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches
ca0d8929e7 checkpatch: add warning for unnamed function definition arguments
Function definitions without identifiers like
	 int foo(int)
are not preferred.  Emit a warning when they occur.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94fe6378504745991b650f48fc92bb4648f25706.1474925354.git.joe@perches.com
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches
5207649b7b checkpatch: improve MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE test
It is possible for a multiple line macro definition to have a false positive
report when an argument is used on a line after a continuation \.

This line might have a leading '+' as the initial character that could be
confused by checkpatch as an operator.

Avoid the leading character on multiple line macro definitions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/60229d13399f9b6509db5a32e30d4c16951a60cd.1473836073.git.joe@perches.com
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches
9192d41a3f checkpatch: add --strict test for precedence challenged macro arguments
Add a test for macro arguents that have a non-comma leading or trailing
operator where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence
issues.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47715508972f8d786f435e583ff881dbeee3a114.1473745855.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
f59b64bffe checkpatch: add --strict test for macro argument reuse
If a macro argument is used multiple times in the macro definition, the
macro argument may have an unexpected side-effect.

Add a test (MACRO_ARG_REUSE) for that condition which is only
emitted with command-line option --strict.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6d67a87cafcafd15499e91780dc63b15dec0aa0.1473744906.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
af207524a4 checkpatch: improve the block comment * alignment test
An "uninitialized value" is emitted when a block comment starts on
the same line as a statement.

Fix this and make the test use a little fewer cpu cycles too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c9993320c2182d37f53ac540878cfef59c3f62d.1473365956.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
0616efa45a checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked
by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames.

This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
15c03cfeab const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used from Julia Lawall's list
Using const is generally a good idea.

Julia Lawall has created a list of always const and almost always const
structs in the kernel sources.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/28/95

Add the most frequently used (> 50 cases) that are almost always or
always const.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e16020f8027654db0095bbfbcc11da51025365c.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
bf1fa1dae6 checkpatch: externalize the structs that should be const
Make it easier to add new structs that should be const.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5a8da43e7c11525bafbda1ca69a8323614dd942.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.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>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
f333195d41 checkpatch: don't test for prefer ether_addr_<foo>
< sigh > Comment these tests out.

These are just too enticing to people that don't verify that
both source and dest addresses really must be __aligned(2).

It helps make Dan Carpenter happy too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc32ec66d24647f4cdf824c8dfbbc59aa7ce7b7d.1472665676.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
08eb9b8016 checkpatch: test multiple line block comment alignment
Warn when block comments are not aligned on the *

/*
 * block comment, no warning
 */

/*
  * block comment, emit warning
  */

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edb57bd330adfe024b95ec2a807d4aa7f0c8b112.1472261299.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
f90774e1fd checkpatch: look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead
S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.

Linus didst say:

: It's *much* easier to parse and understand the octal numbers, while the
: symbolic macro names are just random line noise and hard as hell to
: understand.  You really have to think about it.
:
: So we should rather go the other way: convert existing bad symbolic
: permission bit macro use to just use the octal numbers.
:
: The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the
: inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic
: names are just insane crap.  Nobody sane should ever use them.  Not in the
: kernel, not in user space.
(http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7232ef011d05a92f4caa86a5e9830d87966a2eaf.1470180926.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches
85b0ee18bb checkpatch: see if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS
Use get_maintainer to check the status of individual files.  If
"obsolete", suggest leaving the files alone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ceaa510dc9d2df05ec4b456baed7bb1415550b3.1471889575.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire
c8990359d4 Coccinelle: flag conditions with no effect
Report code constructs where the if and else branch are functionally
identical. In cases where this is intended it really should be
documented - most reported cases probably are bugs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-11 09:57:17 +02:00