Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: detect leading * in NULL comparison check

["S. Gilles" <sgilles@math.umd.edu>]

On 2015-12-13T12:49:01, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 12:59 -0500, S. Gilles wrote:
> > Prevent checkpatch.pl from emitting messages like
> > 
> >   CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!rx_p"
> >   #51: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c:51:
> >   +       if (*rx_p == NULL) {
> > 
> > by checking for leading * characters in the comparison value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: S. Gilles <sgilles@math.umd.edu>
> > ---
> > 
> > I've run this through everything in staging/ as a test, it seems to
> > work okay.
> 
> This wouldn't work with
> 
> 	* foo == NULL;
> 
> but there don't seem to be any in the kernel source.

Some other stuff like

	*(foo) == NULL

won't be caught as well, but in such false negative cases, other style
conventions would have to be violated anyway. I'm not sure how strong
that argument is.

-- 
S. Gilles