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From: Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: checkpatch.pl: add 2 new checks on memset calls
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:59:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150225045907.GC9220@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424839283.11070.9.camel@perches.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 08:41:23PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 06:35 +0200, Aya Mahfouz wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 07:10:52PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 04:40 +0200, Aya Mahfouz wrote:
> > > > This patch adds 2 new checks on memset calls in the file
> > > > checkpatch.pl as follows:
> []
> > ok, I didn't see your suggestion, sorry.
> 
> No worries.
> 
> > Can you look at the following
> > modification before sending the third patch? I don't use $stat because
> > I get false positives with it.
> 
> Please describe the false positives.
> 
> 

ok, here are the relevant warnings issued by checkpatch.pl when using
$stat for the file drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c.
The only correct results are lines 95, 830, 1031, 1040, 1908. 

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#95: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:95:
+	memset(wrqu.ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);


WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#775: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:775:
+}

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#777: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:777:
+static int rtw_wx_set_pmkid(struct net_device *dev,

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#778: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:778:
+			    struct iw_request_info *a,

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#779: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:779:
+			    union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#780: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:780:
+{

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#823: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:823:
+		}

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#824: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:824:
+	} else if (pPMK->cmd == IW_PMKSA_REMOVE) {

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#827: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:827:
+		for (j = 0; j < NUM_PMKID_CACHE; j++) {

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#828: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:828:
+			if (!memcmp(psecuritypriv->PMKIDList[j].Bssid, strIssueBssid, ETH_ALEN)) {

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#830: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:830:
+				memset(psecuritypriv->PMKIDList[j].Bssid, 0x00, ETH_ALEN);

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1019: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1019:
+}

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1021: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1021:
+static int rtw_wx_get_wap(struct net_device *dev,

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1022: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1022:
+			    struct iw_request_info *info,

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1023: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1023:
+			    union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1024: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1024:
+{

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1031: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1031:
+	memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1039: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1039:
+	else

WARNING: Prefer eth_zero_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0x00
#1040: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1040:
+		memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);

WARNING: Prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset() if the second address is 0xff
#1908: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:1908:
+	memset(param->sta_addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN);



-- 
Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-25  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25  2:40 [PATCH v2] scripts: checkpatch.pl: add 2 new checks on memset calls Aya Mahfouz
2015-02-25  3:10 ` Joe Perches
2015-02-25  4:35   ` Aya Mahfouz
2015-02-25  4:41     ` Joe Perches
2015-02-25  4:59       ` Aya Mahfouz [this message]
2015-02-25  5:45         ` Joe Perches
2015-02-25  6:08           ` Aya Mahfouz
2015-02-25  6:20             ` Joe Perches
2015-02-27  1:42               ` Aya Mahfouz
2015-02-27  1:57                 ` Joe Perches

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