From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs
BPF programs explicitly initialise global variables to 0 to make sure
clang (v10 or older) do not put the variables in the common section. Skip
"initialise globals to 0" check for BPF programs to elimiate error
messages like:
ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0
#19: FILE: samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c:21:
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209211954.490077-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-do-not-apply-initialise-globals-to-0-check-to-bpf-progs
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2453,6 +2453,15 @@ sub get_raw_comment {
return $comment;
}
+sub exclude_global_initialisers {
+ my ($realfile) = @_;
+
+ # Do not check for BPF programs (tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/*.c, samples/bpf/*_kern.c, *.bpf.c).
+ return $realfile =~ m@^tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/.*\.c$@ ||
+ $realfile =~ m@^samples/bpf/.*_kern\.c$@ ||
+ $realfile =~ m@/bpf/.*\.bpf\.c$@;
+}
+
sub process {
my $filename = shift;
@@ -4358,7 +4367,8 @@ sub process {
}
# check for global initialisers.
- if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/) {
+ if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/ &&
+ !exclude_global_initialisers($realfile)) {
if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
"do not initialise globals to $1\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
_
