From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Add check for multiple terminating semicolons and casts of vmalloc
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:57:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289840276.16461.135.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3c7fc0..36d6851 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2785,10 +2785,15 @@ sub process {
}
# check for pointless casting of kmalloc return
- if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*k[czm]alloc\b/) {
+ if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*[kv][czm]alloc(_node){0,1}\b/) {
WARN("unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for multiple semicolons
+ if ($line =~ /;\s*;\s*$/) {
+ WARN("Statements terminations use 1 semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for gcc specific __FUNCTION__
if ($line =~ /__FUNCTION__/) {
WARN("__func__ should be used instead of gcc specific __FUNCTION__\n" . $herecurr);
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