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checkpatch: possible types -- prevent illegal modifiers being added
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checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added.patch
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Subject: checkpatch: possible types -- prevent illegal modifiers being added
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Prevent known non types being detected as modifiers. Ensure we do not
look at any type which starts with a keyword.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -997,23 +997,25 @@ sub annotate_values {
sub possible {
my ($possible, $line) = @_;
-
- print "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
- if ($possible !~ /(?:
+ my $notPermitted = qr{(?:
^(?:
$Modifier|
$Storage|
$Type|
- DEFINE_\S+|
+ DEFINE_\S+
+ )$|
+ ^(?:
goto|
return|
case|
else|
asm|__asm__|
do
- )$|
+ )(?:\s|$)|
^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b
- )/x) {
+ )}x;
+ warn "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
+ if ($possible !~ $notPermitted) {
# Check for modifiers.
$possible =~ s/\s*$Storage\s*//g;
$possible =~ s/\s*$Sparse\s*//g;
@@ -1022,8 +1024,10 @@ sub possible {
} elsif ($possible =~ /\s/) {
$possible =~ s/\s*$Type\s*//g;
for my $modifier (split(' ', $possible)) {
- warn "MODIFIER: $modifier ($possible) ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible);
- push(@modifierList, $modifier);
+ if ($modifier !~ $notPermitted) {
+ warn "MODIFIER: $modifier ($possible) ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible);
+ push(@modifierList, $modifier);
+ }
}
} else {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added.patch
checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk.patch
checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch
checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation.patch
checkpatch-fix-__attribute__-matching.patch
checkpatch-fix-false-export_symbol-warning.patch
checkpatch-version-030.patch
nodemask-make-nodemask_alloc-more-general.patch
hugetlb-rework-hstate_next_node_-functions.patch
hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions.patch
hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions-fix.patch
hugetlb-factor-init_nodemask_of_node.patch
hugetlb-derive-huge-pages-nodes-allowed-from-task-mempolicy.patch
hugetlb-add-generic-definition-of-numa_no_node.patch
hugetlb-add-per-node-hstate-attributes.patch
hugetlb-update-hugetlb-documentation-for-numa-controls.patch
hugetlb-use-only-nodes-with-memory-for-huge-pages.patch
mm-clear-node-in-n_high_memory-and-stop-kswapd-when-all-memory-is-offlined.patch
hugetlb-handle-memory-hot-plug-events.patch
hugetlb-offload-per-node-attribute-registrations.patch
mm-add-gfp-flags-for-nodemask_alloc-slab-allocations.patch
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