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checkpatch: avoid "spaces required around that ':'" false positive
Since commit 1f65f947a6 ("checkpatch: add checks for question mark and
colon spacing") back in 2008, checkpatch has reported false positive for
asm volatile uses of "::" checkpatch thinks colons should always have
spaces around it.

Add an exception for colons with colons on either side for this valid asm
volatile (and c++) use.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Yehuda Yitschak <yehuday@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:59 -04:00
e0df7e1fae
checkpatch: fix --fix use with a patch of multiple files
If a patch touches multiple files, the --fix and --fix-inplace option
doesn't keep the proper line count and makes the new patch file not able
to be applied via bad offset line numbers when lines are added or deleted
by the --fix option.

Dunno how that extra backslash snuck in there.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
323b267faf
checkpatch.pl: new instances of ENOSYS are errors
ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called.  We have a
bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on
otherwise valid syscalls.  We should avoid this in new code.

Pervasive incorrect usage of ENOSYS came up at the kernel summit ABI
review discussion.  Let's see if checkpatch can help.

I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Andy Lutomirski   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
91c9afaf97
checkpatch: add a test for const with __read_mostly uses
const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly.  They are read-only.

Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts with LTO
linking.

So add a test to try to avoid this issue.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
c17893c740
checkpatch: improve operator spacing check
Code such as:
       x = timercmp(&now, &end, <);
Will currently trigger a checkpatch error. e.g.

ERROR: spaces required around that '<'

This is because the "Ignore operators passed as parameters" check looks
only for a comma following the operator.  Improve the check by also
looking for a close parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Sam Bobroff   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
d7fe8065ad
checkpatch: add 'Prefer ARRAY_SIZE" test
Add a test for sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) that could be ARRAY_SIZE(foo).

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
b598b67060
checkpatch: add uart_ops to normally const structs
Add another struct to the list of normally const struct types

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:58 -04:00
6d07d01b62
checkpatch: add #define foo "string" long line exception
There are #defines with long string constants like:
	#define foo "some really long string > 80 columns"
Add a long line exception for them.

Miscellanea:

Use the $String variable for slightly better readability

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
29a3c46673
checkpatch, SubmittingPatches: suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns
Commit messages lines are sometimes overly long.

Suggest line wrapping at 75 columns so the default git commit log
indentation of 4 plus the commit message text still fits on an 80 column
screen.

Add a checkpatch test for long commit messages lines too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
2a076f40d8
checkpatch: don't ask for asm/file.h to linux/file.h unconditionally
Currently checkpatch warns when asm/file.h is included and linux/file.h
exists.  That conversion can be made when linux/file.h includes asm/file.h
which is not always the case.(See signal.h)

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fabian Frederick   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
0e212e0a72
checkpatch: add test for repeated const uses
Using 'const <type> const *' is generally meant to be written 'const
<type> * const'.

Add a test for the miswritten form.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
ab7e23f344
checkpatch: improve return negative errno check
Add a few conditions to the test to find
	return (ERRNO);

Make the output message a bit less cryptic too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
f34e4a4f97
checkpatch: match more world writable permissions
Currently checkpatch will fuss if one uses world writable settings in
debugfs files and DEVICE_ATTR uses by testing S_IWUGO but not testing
S_IWOTH, S_IRWXUGO or S_IALLUGO.

Extend the check to catch all cases exporting world writable permissions
including octal values.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray $]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
b392c64f59
checkpatch: add optional --codespell dictionary to find more typos
If a codespell dictionary exists, use it if desired.  default is off,
maybe it could be turned on later.

codespell's dictionary format allows multiple possible corrections, ignore
that for now and only use the first suggestion.

Also add \b to spelling test so that consecutive misspelled words
are found properly.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
ebfd7d6237
checkpatch: add spell checking of email subject line
Only commit log and patch additions are checked for typos and spelling
errors currently.  Add a check of the email subject line too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:56 -04:00
66d7a382cb
checkpatch: improve "no space is necessary after a cast" test
The "no space is necessary after a cast" sizeof exclusion doesn't work
properly.

The test reports a false positive for code like:

	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct batadv_bla_claim_dst) != 6);

Make it work, simplify the exclusions, and add some comments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-04-17 09:03:56 -04:00
6ab3a9701e
checkpatch: add of_device_id to structs that should be const
Uses of struct of_device_id are most commonly const.

Suggest using it as such.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
0f3c5aab5e
checkpatch: try to avoid poor patch subject lines
Naming the tool that found an issue in the subject line isn't very useful.
 Emit a warning when a common tool (currently checkpatch, sparse or
smatch) is in the subject line.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
a2fe16b9d8
checkpatch: make sure a commit reference description uses parentheses
The preferred style for a commit reference in a commit log is:

    commit <foo> ("<title line>")

A recent commit removed this check for parentheses.  Add it back.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
19c146a64c
checkpatch: add --strict test for spaces around arithmetic
Some prefer code to have spaces around arithmetic so instead of:
        a = b*c+d;
suggest
        a = b * c + d;

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
d2e025f364
checkpatch: neaten printk_ratelimited message position
Just neatening...

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
101ee6802a
checkpatch: improve "no space necessary after cast" test
Code like:
	if (a < sizeof(<type>) &&
and
	{ .len = sizeof(<type>) },

incorrectly emits that warning, so add more exceptions to avoid
the warning.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
43f7fe52a8
checkpatch: improve seq_print->seq_puts suggestion
Improve the format specifier test by removing any %% before looking for
any remaining % format specifier.

Signed-off-by: Heba Aamer <heba93aamer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Heba Aamer   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
caac1d5fdd
checkpatch: add ability to --fix unnecessary blank lines around braces
There's a --strict test for these blank lines.

Add the ability to automatically remove them with --fix.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
f8e58219dc
checkpatch: add types for other OS typedefs
bsd and sysv use different typedefs for unsigned types.

These are in types.h but not in checkpatch, so add them to checkpatch's
ability to know types.

This can avoid false positives for code like:

void foo(void)
{
	int x;
	uint y;

	[...];
}

where checkpatch incorrectly emits a warning for "missing a blank line
after declarations".

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
021158b4c7
checkpatch: add ability to coalesce commit descriptions on multiple lines
If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it
before testing.

This allows:

  commit <foo> ("some long
  description")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
b671fde057
checkpatch: add likely/unlikely comparison misuse test
Add a test for probably likely/unlikely misuses where the comparison is
likely misplaced

	if (likely(foo) > 0)
vs
	if (likely(foo > 0))

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Christoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
acd9362c24
checkpatch: update git commit message
The git commit message can be confusing,

Try to clarify the message a bit to reduce the confusion when emitted.

Show the correct form using
	Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")'
and if the git commit sha1 is unique, show
the right sha1 to use with the actual title

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
0d7835fcaa
checkpatch: Allow comments in macros tested for single statements
Convert all the comments to spaces before testing for single statement
macros.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
1b36b201c0
checkpatch: add check for keyword 'boolean' in Kconfig definitions
Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of
config options as support for it will be dropped later on.

See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com

Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com>
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Christoph Jaeger   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
327953e9af
checkpatch: fix UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL false positive
KERN_<LEVEL> is never redundant with printk_ratelimited or printk_once.
(Except perhaps in the sense that you could use e.g.  pr_err_ratelimited
or pr_err_once, but that would apply to printk as well).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Paolo Bonzini   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
dcaf112365
checkpatch: ignore __pure $Attribute
Just like "__cold", ignore the __pure gcc attribute macro so pointer
warnings aren't generated for uses like "int * __pure fn(...)"

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
e23ef1f334
checkpatch: improve octal permissions tests
Add world writable permissions tests for the various functions like
debugfs etc...

Add $String type for $FuncArg so that string constants are matched.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
c0a5c89858
checkpatch: emit an error when using predefined timestamp macros
Since commit fe7c36c7bd ("Makefile: Build with -Werror=date-time if
the compiler supports it"), use of __DATE__, __TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP__
has not been allowed.

As this test is gcc version specific (> 4.9), it hasn't prevented a few
new uses from creeping into the kernel sources.

Make checkpatch complain about them.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2015-02-13 21:21:39 -08:00
62ec818f55
checkpatch: add ability to --fix (coalesce) string fragments on multiple lines
Add --fix option to coalesce string fragments.

This does not coalesce string fragments that have newline terminations or
are otherwise exempted.

Other miscellanea:

o move all the string tests together.
o fix get_quoted_string function for tab characters
o fix concatination typo

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
5e4f6ba5eb
checkpatch: add --strict "pointer comparison to NULL" test
It seems there are more and more uses of "if (!ptr)" in preference to "if
(ptr == NULL)" so add a --strict test to emit a message when using the
latter form.

This also finds (ptr != NULL).

Fix it too if desired.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
b75ac618df
checkpatch: add test for consecutive string fragments
Emit a warning when single line string coalescing occurs.

Code that uses compiler string concatenation on a single line like:

    printk("foo" "bar");

is generally better to read concatenated like:

    printk("foobar");

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
90ad30e5b2
checkpatch: add --strict preference for #defines using BIT(foo)
Using BIT(foo) and BIT_ULL(bar) is more common now.  Suggest using these
macros over #defines with 1<<value.

Add a --fix option too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
0ab9019184
checkpatch: allow certain SI units with three characters
Checkpatch flags CamelCase identifiers in strict mode, but it has a
feature to ignore parts with only two characters to allow for SI units
like mV or uA.  Unfortunately, not all SI units fit in two characters, and
not all are lower case followed by upper case.

This patch adds hardcoded detection for frequency and 1024-based size
units (Hz/KHz/MHz/GHz/THz and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB), since allowing any three
character combinations might be too lenient.  The list can later be
expanded as needed.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Julius Werner   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
f512357646
checkpatch: Add --strict test for function pointer calling style
Peter Hurley wrote:

The use of older function ptr calling style, (*fn)(), makes static
analysis more error-prone; replace with modern fn() style.

So make checkpatch emit a --strict test for that condition.

Update the unnecessary parentheses test for dereferencing
objects at the same time and create a $fix mechanism too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
ea4acbb11e
checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency
When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.

Reported by many people.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
e0d975b1b4
checkpatch: try to avoid mask and shift errors
Shift has a higher precedence that mask so warn when a mask then shift
operation is done without parentheses around the mask.

This test works well for a right shift, but the left shift is pretty
commonly done correctly so only warn on the right shift.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
abb08a5388
checkpatch: fix use via symlink, make missing spelling file non-fatal
Commit 66b47b4a9d ("checkpatch: look for common misspellings") made it
difficult to use checkpatch via a symlink.

Fix that and make a missing spelling.txt file non-fatal.  Emit a warning
when the spelling.txt file can not be opened.

Reference: http://xkcd.com/1172/

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
36061e3806
checkpatch: improve warning message for "needless if" case
Add an 'and' to the sentence so that it looks better:

  WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fabio Estevam   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
15160f90b8
checkpatch: improve test for no space after cast
sizeof(foo) is not a cast, allow a space after it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
04941aa774
checkpatch: add error on use of attribute((weak)) or __weak declarations
Using weak declarations can have unintended link defects.  The __weak on
the declaration causes non-weak definitions to become weak.

Emit an error on its use.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
619a908aa3
checkpatch: add an error test for no space before comma
Using code like:

    int foo , bar;

is not preferred to:

    int foo, bar;

so emit an error on this style.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-12-10 17:41:11 -08:00
2381097b6c
checkpatch: warn on logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
Warn on probable misuses of logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
like pr_err(KERN_ERR "foo\n");

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-10-14 02:18:15 +02:00
f78d98f6ce
checkpatch: add exception to return then else test
Add an exception to the return before else warning when the line
following it is also a return like:

	if (foo)
		return bar;
	else
		return baz;

This form of a test then return is at least as readable as

	if (foo)
		return bar;
	return baz;

so don't emit a warning on the first form.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Elshad Mustafayev <elshadimo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Joe Perches   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-10-14 02:18:15 +02:00
840080a084
checkpatch: look for common misspellings
Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list.  Several false
positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
common in the kernel:

	backword backwords
	invalide valide
	recieves
	singed unsinged

While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.

In the 13830 commits between 3.15 and 3.16, the script would have noticed
560 spelling mistakes. The top 25 are shown here:

$ git log --pretty=oneline v3.15..v3.16 | wc -l
13830
$ git log --format='%H' v3.15..v3.16 | \
   while read commit ; do \
     echo "commit $commit" ; \
     git log --format=email --stat -p -1 $commit | \
       ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=typo_spelling --no-summary - ; \
   done | tee spell_v3.15..v3.16.txt | grep "may be misspelled" | \
   awk '{print $2}' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     21 'seperate'
     17 'endianess'
     15 'sucess'
     13 'noticable'
     11 'occured'
     11 'accomodate'
     10 'interrup'
      9 'prefered'
      8 'unecessary'
      8 'explicitely'
      7 'supress'
      7 'overriden'
      7 'immediatly'
      7 'funtion'
      7 'defult'
      7 'childs'
      6 'succesful'
      6 'splitted'
      6 'specifc'
      6 'reseting'
      6 'recieve'
      6 'changable'
      5 'tmis'
      5 'singed'
      5 'preceeding'

Thanks to Joe Perches for rewrites, suggestions, additional misspelling
entries, and testing.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Kees Cook   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2014-10-14 02:18:15 +02:00
66b47b4a9d