linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v5][next] integrity: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings

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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:17:09 -0400
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva"
 <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>,
        Dmitry
 Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        Eric Snowberg
 <eric.snowberg@...cle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, James Morris
 <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5][next] integrity: Avoid
 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings

On Thu, 2024-04-04 at 18:56 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > "checkpatch.pl --strict" complains "CHECK: Alignment should match open
> > parenthesis".  I'll queue the patch, but how about teaching checkpatch.pl to
> > ignore __struct_group()?
> 
> I think this would do it:
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 9c4c4a61bc83..e229b97f17f6 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3958,7 +3958,7 @@ sub process {
>                          my $rest = $2;
> 
>                          my $pos = pos_last_openparen($rest);
> -                       if ($pos >= 0) {
> +                       if ($pos >= 0 && $rest !~
> /(__)?struct_group(_(tagged|attr))?(\()/) {
>                                  $line =~ /^(\+| )([ \t]*)/;
>                                  my $newindent = $2;
> 
> I'll send a proper patch. Thanks for the suggestion, Mimi.

Thanks, it works.

Mimi