On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 20:21 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 09:09 -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This is a upcoming change to clean up a new warning treewide. > > > I am wondering if the change could be one mega patch (see below) or > > > normal patch per file about 100 patches or somewhere half way by collecting > > > early acks. > > > > > > clang has a number of useful, new warnings see > > > https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html > > > > > > This change cleans up -Wunreachable-code-break > > > https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wunreachable-code-break > > > for 266 of 485 warnings in this week's linux-next, allyesconfig on x86_64. > > > > Early acks/individual patches by subsystem would be good. > > Better still would be an automated cocci script. > > Coccinelle is not especially good at this, because it is based on control > flow, and a return or goto diverts the control flow away from the break. > A hack to solve the problem is to put an if around the return or goto, but > that gives the break a meaningless file name and line number. I collected > the following list, but it only has 439 results, so fewer than clang. But > maybe there are some files that are not considered by clang in the x86 > allyesconfig configuration. > > Probably checkpatch is the best solution here, since it is not > configuration sensitive and doesn't care about control flow. Likely the clang compiler is the best option here. It might be useful to add -Wunreachable-code-break to W=1 or just always enable it if it isn't already enabled. diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn index 95e4cdb94fe9..3819787579d5 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunreachable-code-break) # The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare (and thank you Tom for pushing this forward) checkpatch can't find instances like: case FOO: if (foo) return 1; else return 2; break; As it doesn't track flow and relies on the number of tabs to be the same for any goto/return and break; checkpatch will warn on: case FOO: ... goto bar; break; _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
