On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 12:46 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > NOKPROBE_SYMBOL should be treated like EXPORT_SYMBOL to avoid > false positives. [] > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl [] > @@ -3995,6 +3995,7 @@ sub process { > $line =~ /^\+/ && > !($line =~ /^\+\s*$/ || > $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:EXPORT_SYMBOL|early_param)/ || > + $line =~ /^\+\s*NOKPROBE_SYMBOL/ || > $line =~ /^\+\s*MODULE_/i || > $line =~ /^\+\s*\#\s*(?:end|elif|else)/ || > $line =~ /^\+[a-z_]*init/ || $ git grep -P -w -oh '\w*NOKPROBE_SYMBOL\w*' | sort | uniq -c 60 _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL 2 __NOKPROBE_SYMBOL 304 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL Any issue with these other variants? (it doesn't seem so) btw: __NOKPROBE_SYMBOL has a ; at the end of its definition. include/asm-generic/kprobes.h:# define __NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fname) \ include/asm-generic/kprobes.h-static unsigned long __used \ include/asm-generic/kprobes.h- __section("_kprobe_blacklist") \ include/asm-generic/kprobes.h- _kbl_addr_##fname = (unsigned long)fname; And so there are extra ; uses after ever use of NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(foo); $ git grep -w NOKPROBE_SYMBOL | grep ';' | wc -l 285 There are only 10 uses of NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(foo) without a semicolon $ git grep -P '\bNOKPROBE_SYMBOL\s*\(\s*\w+\s*\)\s*(?:[^\;]|$)' arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_undefinstr) arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(optimized_callback) arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_brk_fn) arch/powerpc/mm/cacheflush.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(flush_dcache_icache_phys) arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx/pq2.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(pq2_restart) include/asm-generic/kprobes.h:# define NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fname) __NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fname) include/asm-generic/kprobes.h:# define NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fname) kernel/fail_function.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(fei_kprobe_handler) kernel/kprobes.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__kretprobe_trampoline_handler) kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(process_fetch_insn) kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(process_fetch_insn) kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(process_fetch_insn) The actual uses with NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(foo) should likely have semicolons added and the __NOKPROBE_SYMBOL definition should have the semicolon removed.