Re: [PATCH 2/5] slab: Add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 06:10:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 01:27 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:31:32PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Lastly __alloc_size should probably be added to checkpatch
> > > 
> > > Maybe:
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > > @@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ our $Attribute	= qr{
> > >  			____cacheline_aligned|
> > >  			____cacheline_aligned_in_smp|
> > >  			____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp|
> > > -			__weak
> > > +			__weak|
> > > +			__alloc_size\s*\(\s*\d+\s*(?:,\s*d+\s*){0,5}\)
> > 
> > Should probably be added to kernel-doc as well.  Any other awful regexes
> > that need to be changed to understand it?  And can we commonise the
> > regexes that do exist into a perl helper library?
> 
> probably, but there would need to be some library work done and
> changes made to both utilities so they could use the same $helpers.
> 
> And there are several nominally incomplete regexes already in
> kernel-doc and I'm not at all familiar with kernel-doc.

Yes, kernel-doc is an awful example of perl gone wild.




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