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Diffstat (limited to 'util/lint/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | util/lint/checkpatch.pl | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl index ce56feb6cc..f4c8591d68 100755 --- a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl +++ b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl @@ -601,6 +601,16 @@ our $logFunctions = qr{(?x: seq_vprintf|seq_printf|seq_puts )}; +our $allocFunctions = qr{(?x: + (?:(?:devm_)? + (?:kv|k|v)[czm]alloc(?:_array)?(?:_node)? | + kstrdup(?:_const)? | + kmemdup(?:_nul)?) | + (?:\w+)?alloc_skb(?:_ip_align)? | + # dev_alloc_skb/netdev_alloc_skb, et al + dma_alloc_coherent +)}; + our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi: Signed-off-by:| Acked-by:| @@ -5774,7 +5784,8 @@ sub process { my ($s, $c) = ctx_statement_block($linenr - 3, $realcnt, 0); # print("line: <$line>\nprevline: <$prevline>\ns: <$s>\nc: <$c>\n\n\n"); - if ($s =~ /(?:^|\n)[ \+]\s*(?:$Type\s*)?\Q$testval\E\s*=\s*(?:\([^\)]*\)\s*)?\s*(?:devm_)?(?:[kv][czm]alloc(?:_node|_array)?\b|kstrdup|kmemdup|(?:dev_)?alloc_skb)/) { + if ($s =~ /(?:^|\n)[ \+]\s*(?:$Type\s*)?\Q$testval\E\s*=\s*(?:\([^\)]*\)\s*)?\s*$allocFunctions\s*\(/ && + $s !~ /\b__GFP_NOWARN\b/ ) { WARN("OOM_MESSAGE", "Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message\n" . $hereprev); } @@ -6431,8 +6442,8 @@ sub process { } } -# check for pointless casting of kmalloc return - if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*[kv][czm]alloc(_node){0,1}\b/) { +# check for pointless casting of alloc functions + if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*$allocFunctions\b/) { WARN("UNNECESSARY_CASTS", "unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html\n" . $herecurr); } |