Re: make checkpatch warn about memset with swapped arguments.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:37:04 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:02 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> >  > > +		if ($line =~ /memset.*\,(\ |)(0x|)0(\ |0|)\);/) {
> >  > 
> >  > Wouldn't this be a better regex:
> >  > 
> >  > 	if ($line =~ /memset.*\,\s*(0x)?0\s*\)\s*;/)
> > 
> > I dunno, regexps are all gobble-de-gook to me.  Why is it better ?
> 
> :) I love regex :)
> 
> But the reason for better is more robust. This will catch other bad
> things users may do, like having tabs and such instead of spaces. Or
> they may have more than one space. Although this should be caught by
> other errors or warnings in checkpatch.
> 
> \s stands for any whitespace, 
> so ",\s*x" is ,[any-amount-of-white-space]x"
> 
> The (0x)? is common for (0x|) in perl, but either is fine. I'm just use
> to the '?' one.
> 

Dave's patch is tested (I assume), so it wins ;)

Maybe it's just me, but I think it would be better to use bzero() for
this operation - it's more readable and it can't be screwed up.  Then
checkpatch checks for memset(xxx, 0, xxx) and for memset(xxx, xxx, 0)
and says "hey, use bzero".