The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve octal permission test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test.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: improve octal permission test The function calls with octal permissions commonly span multiple lines. The current test is line oriented and fails to find some matches. Make the test use the $stat variable instead of the $line variable to span multiple lines. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb276b5a9de12256694ad31c806dbe8c7ee3ef8c.1474999653.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6092,28 +6092,36 @@ sub process { # Mode permission misuses where it seems decimal should be octal # This uses a shortcut match to avoid unnecessary uses of a slow foreach loop if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && - $line =~ /$mode_perms_search/) { + defined $stat && + $stat =~ /^.\s*$mode_perms_search/) { foreach my $entry (@mode_permission_funcs) { my $func = $entry->[0]; my $arg_pos = $entry->[1]; + my $lc = $stat =~ tr@\n@@; + $lc = $lc + $linenr; + my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, 0); + for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; $count++) { + $stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . raw_line($count, 0); + } + my $skip_args = ""; if ($arg_pos > 1) { $arg_pos--; $skip_args = "(?:\\s*$FuncArg\\s*,\\s*){$arg_pos,$arg_pos}"; } my $test = "\\b$func\\s*\\(${skip_args}($FuncArg(?:\\|\\s*$FuncArg)*)\\s*[,\\)]"; - if ($line =~ /$test/) { + if ($stat =~ /$test/) { my $val = $1; $val = $6 if ($skip_args ne ""); if (($val =~ /^$Int$/ && $val !~ /^$Octal$/) || ($val =~ /^$Octal$/ && length($val) ne 4)) { ERROR("NON_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS", - "Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions\n" . $herecurr); + "Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions\n" . $stat_real); } if ($val =~ /^$Octal$/ && (oct($val) & 02)) { ERROR("EXPORTED_WORLD_WRITABLE", - "Exporting writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.\n" . $herecurr); + "Exporting writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.\n" . $stat_real); } if ($val =~ /\b$mode_perms_string_search\b/) { my $to = 0; @@ -6122,9 +6130,12 @@ sub process { } my $new = sprintf("%04o", $to); if (WARN("SYMBOLIC_PERMS", - "Symbolic permissions are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions $new.\n" . $herecurr) && + "Symbolic permissions are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions $new.\n" . $stat_real) && $fix) { - $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\Q$val\E/$new/; + $lc = $stat =~ tr@\n@@; + for (my $count = $fixlinenr; $count <= $fixlinenr + $lc; $count++) { + $fixed[$count] =~ s/\Q$val\E/$new/; + } } } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are seq-proc-modify-seq_put_decimal_ll-to-take-a-const-char-not-char.patch meminfo-break-apart-a-very-long-seq_printf-with-ifdefs.patch spellingtxt-modeled-is-spelt-correctly.patch checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch checkpatch-look-for-symbolic-permissions-and-suggest-octal-instead.patch checkpatch-test-multiple-line-block-comment-alignment.patch checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch checkpatch-externalize-the-structs-that-should-be-const.patch const_structscheckpatch-add-frequently-used-from-julia-lawalls-list.patch checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete.patch checkpatch-improve-the-block-comment-alignment-test.patch checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-macro-argument-reuse.patch checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-precedence-challenged-macro-arguments.patch checkpatch-improve-macro_arg_precedence-test.patch checkpatch-add-warning-for-unnamed-function-definition-arguments.patch checkpatch-improve-octal-permission-test.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