The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: suggest using eth_zero_addr() and eth_broadcast_addr()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-suggest-using-eth_zero_addr-and-eth_broadcast_addr.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: suggest using eth_zero_addr() and eth_broadcast_addr()
Suggest using eth_zero_addr() or eth_broadcast_addr() instead of memset().
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suggest-using-eth_zero_addr-and-eth_broadcast_addr scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suggest-using-eth_zero_addr-and-eth_broadcast_addr
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5165,6 +5165,29 @@ sub process {
"Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n")
}
+# check for memset(foo, 0x0, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_zero_addr
+# check for memset(foo, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_broadcast_addr
+ if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+ defined $stat &&
+ $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
+
+ my $ms_val = $7;
+
+ if ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0x|)0+$/i) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_ZERO_ADDR",
+ "Prefer eth_zero_addr over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_zero_addr($2)/;
+ }
+ } elsif ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0xff|255)$/i) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_BROADCAST_ADDR",
+ "Prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_broadcast_addr($2)/;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
defined $stat &&
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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