From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: apw@canonical.com
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: add memset checks to checkpatch.pl
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:40:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100818204016.GA29640@redhat.com> (raw)
Occasionally someone goofs the argument order to memset.
This patch makes checkpatch catch those.
I made memset with size of 0 an error, because it's never correct,
whereas memset with a size of 1 isn't technically an incorrect
thing to do so I left it as a warning. It may still be better to replace
it with a single variable assignment in the false positive cases.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2039acd..3690173 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2794,6 +2794,14 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check for memset with reversed 2nd/3rd arguments.
+ if ($line =~ /memset.*\,(\ |)(0x|)0(\ |0|)\);/) {
+ ERROR("memset takes size as third argument, not the second.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ if ($line =~ /memset.*\,(\ |)(0x|)1\);/) {
+ WARN("single byte memset is suspicious. Swapped 2nd/3rd argument?\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for lockdep_set_novalidate_class
if ($line =~ /^.\s*lockdep_set_novalidate_class\s*\(/ ||
$line =~ /__lockdep_no_validate__\s*\)/ ) {
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 20:40 Dave Jones [this message]
2010-08-18 21:32 ` add memset checks to checkpatch.pl Joe Perches
2010-08-18 21:48 ` Dave Jones
2010-08-18 21:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-08-18 22:17 ` Dave Jones
2010-08-18 23:38 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-02 10:52 ` Andy Whitcroft
2010-09-02 13:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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