linux-kernel - [PATCH] make checkpatch warn about access to current->comm

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:39:20 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@...telmus.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: [PATCH] make checkpatch warn about access to current->comm

From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>

Suggest using the get_task_comm accessor versus direct access to
current->comm.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>

---

I just mashed it in the middle of existing checks to minimize risk of
collisions.

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 45eb0ae..4f2da5d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2533,6 +2533,11 @@ sub process {
 				$herecurr);
 		}
 
+# direct access to current task name is racy, suggest accessor instead.
+		if ($line =~ /current\-\>comm/) {
+			WARN("direct access to current->comm is racy, use get_task_comm() instead.\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong
 # ignore definitions of NR_CPUS and usage to define arrays as likely right
 		if ($line =~ /\bNR_CPUS\b/ &&
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