Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:34 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> > > Now that accessing current->comm needs to be protected,
> > > +# check for current->comm usage
> > > +		if ($line =~ /\b(?:current|task|tsk|t)\s*->\s*comm\b/) {
> > Not a checkpatch.pl expert but as far as I'm concerned, that looks reasonable.

I think the only checkpatch expert is Andy Whitcroft.

You don't need (?: just (

curr, chip and object are pretty common (see below)

An option may be to specify another variable
common_comm_vars or something like it

our $common_comm_vars = qr{(?x:
	current|tsk|p|task|curr|chip|t|object|me
)};

and use that variable in your test

Treewide:

$ grep -rPoh --include=*.[ch] "\b\w+\s*\-\>\s*comm\b" * | \
	sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
    319 current->comm
     59 tsk->comm
     32 __entry->comm
     24 p->comm
     23 event->comm
     19 task->comm
     18 thread->comm
     15 self->comm
     14 c->comm
     13 curr->comm
     12 chip->comm
      9 t->comm
      8 object->comm
      8 me->comm
(others not shown)

Perf:

$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\b\w+\s*\-\>\s*comm\b" tools/perf include/trace | \
	sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     32 __entry->comm
     23 event->comm
     18 thread->comm
     15 self->comm
     14 c->comm
     10 current->comm
      3 tsk->comm
      3 task->comm
      3 p->comm
(others not shown)