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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2016-10-11 13:52:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:30 -0700
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checkpatch: add --strict test for precedence challenged macro arguments
Add a test for macro arguents that have a non-comma leading or trailing operator where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence issues. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47715508972f8d786f435e583ff881dbeee3a114.1473745855.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f135f8e4d069..ea1a7adce406 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4836,7 +4836,7 @@ sub process {
# check if any macro arguments are reused (ignore '...' and 'type')
foreach my $arg (@def_args) {
next if ($arg =~ /\.\.\./);
- next if ($arg =~ /^type$/);
+ next if ($arg =~ /^type$/i);
my $tmp = $define_stmt;
$tmp =~ s/\b(typeof|__typeof__|__builtin\w+|typecheck\s*\(\s*$Type\s*,|\#+)\s*\(*\s*$arg\s*\)*\b//g;
$tmp =~ s/\#\s*$arg\b//g;
@@ -4845,6 +4845,13 @@ sub process {
if ($use_cnt > 1) {
CHK("MACRO_ARG_REUSE",
"Macro argument reuse '$arg' - possible side-effects?\n" . "$herectx");
+ }
+# check if any macro arguments may have other precedence issues
+ if ($define_stmt =~ m/($Operators)?\s*\b$arg\b\s*($Operators)?/m &&
+ ((defined($1) && $1 ne ',') ||
+ (defined($2) && $2 ne ','))) {
+ CHK("MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE",
+ "Macro argument '$arg' may be better as '($arg)' to avoid precedence issues\n" . "$herectx");
}
}