The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: emit an error on formats with 0x%<decimal> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%decimal.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%25decimal.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%25decimal.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: emit an error on formats with 0x%<decimal> Using 0x%d is wrong. Emit a message when it happens. Miscellanea: Improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%decimal scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%decimal +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4816,16 +4816,20 @@ sub process { "Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr); } -# check for %L{u,d,i} in strings +# check for %L{u,d,i} and 0x%[udi] in strings my $string; while ($line =~ /(?:^|")([X\t]*)(?:"|$)/g) { $string = substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]); $string =~ s/%%/__/g; - if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%L[udi]/) { + if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%[\*\d\.\$]*L[udi]/) { WARN("PRINTF_L", "\%Ld/%Lu are not-standard C, use %lld/%llu\n" . $herecurr); last; } + if ($string =~ /0x%[\*\d\.\$\Llzth]*[udi]/) { + ERROR("PRINTF_0xDECIMAL", + "Prefixing 0x with decimal output is defective\n" . $herecurr); + } } # check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of " _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are lindent-handle-missing-indent-gracefully.patch ocfs2-neaten-do_error-ocfs2_error-and-ocfs2_abort.patch mm-slab_common-allow-null-cache-pointer-in-kmem_cache_destroy.patch mm-mempool-allow-null-pool-pointer-in-mempool_destroy.patch mm-dmapool-allow-null-pool-pointer-in-dma_pool_destroy.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable-fix.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable-fix-fix.patch maintainers-credits-mark-maxraid-as-orphan-move-anil-ravindranath-to-credits.patch parse_integer-add-checkpatchpl-notice.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-warn-on-bare-sha-1-commit-ids-in-commit-logs.patch checkpatch-add-warning-on-bug-bug_on-use.patch checkpatch-improve-suspect_code_indent-test.patch checkpatch-allow-longer-declaration-macros.patch checkpatch-add-some-foo_destroy-functions-to-needless_if-tests.patch checkpatch-report-the-right-line-when-using-emacs-and-file.patch checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles.patch checkpatch-make-strict-the-default-for-drivers-staging-files-and-patches.patch checkpatch-emit-an-error-on-formats-with-0x%decimal.patch hfs-fix-b-tree-corruption-after-insertion-at-position-0.patch seq_file-provide-an-analogue-of-print_hex_dump.patch crypto-qat-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch parisc-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch zcrypt-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch kmemleak-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch wil6210-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch linux-next.patch fs-seq_file-convert-int-seq_vprint-seq_printf-etc-returns-to-void.patch fs-seq_file-convert-int-seq_vprint-seq_printf-etc-returns-to-void-fix.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