The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: reduce false positives when checking void function return statements has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-when-checking-void-function-return-statements.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: reduce false positives when checking void function return statements The previous patch had a few too many false positives on styles that should be acceptable. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-when-checking-void-function-return-statements scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-when-checking-void-function-return-statements +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3484,12 +3484,17 @@ sub process { } } -# unnecessary return in a void function? (a single leading tab, then return;) - if ($sline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ && - $prevline =~ /^\+/) { +# unnecessary return in a void function +# at end-of-function, with the previous line a single leading tab, then return; +# and the line before that not a goto label target like "out:" + if ($sline =~ /^[ \+]}\s*$/ && + $prevline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ && + $linenr >= 3 && + $lines[$linenr - 3] =~ /^[ +]/ && + $lines[$linenr - 3] !~ /^[ +]\s*$Ident\s*:/) { WARN("RETURN_VOID", - "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $herecurr); - } + "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $hereprev); + } # if statements using unnecessary parentheses - ie: if ((foo == bar)) if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch checkpatch-check-git-commit-descriptions.patch fs-squashfs-file_directc-replace-countsize-kmalloc-by-kmalloc_array.patch printk-make-dynamic-kernel-ring-buffer-alignment-explicit.patch printk-move-power-of-2-practice-of-ring-buffer-size-to-a-helper.patch printk-make-dynamic-units-clear-for-the-kernel-ring-buffer.patch printk-allow-increasing-the-ring-buffer-depending-on-the-number-of-cpus.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-attempt-to-find-unnecessary-out-of-memory-messages.patch checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-else-after-return-or-break.patch checkpatch-fix-complex-macro-false-positive-for-escaped-constant-char.patch checkpatch-fix-function-pointers-in-blank-line-needed-after-declarations-test.patch checkpatch-ignore-email-headers-better.patch checkpatchpl-also-suggest-else-if-when-if-follows-brace.patch fs-isofs-logging-clean-up.patch sysctl-remove-now-unused-typedef-ctl_table.patch sysctl-remove-now-unused-typedef-ctl_table-fix.patch fs-qnx6-convert-printk-to-pr_foo.patch fs-qnx6-use-pr_fmt-and-__func__-in-logging.patch fs-qnx6-update-debugging-to-current-functions.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html