linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn if changed lines exceeds a maximum size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:25:05 +0000
From:   "Brown, Nicholas" <nb930b@...l.att.com>
To:     "joe@...ches.com" <joe@...ches.com>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
        "nickbroon@...il.com" <nickbroon@...il.com>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn if changed lines exceeds a maximum size

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 11:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 19:01 +0000, Nicholas Brown wrote:
> > Changed lines is the total of inserted and deleted lines.
> > By default there is no limit, --max-changed-lines may be used to
> > set a
> > value. Some users may wish to encourage that patches are split into
> > smaller parts using this.
> > See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#split-changes
> 
> Still whitespace damaged.
> Indentations use tabs not 2 spaces.

Hopefully editor set correctly now, so follow-up should fix this.

> 
> and another issue below
> 
> > 
> > @@ -2233,6 +2239,14 @@ sub process {
> >  
> >  		push(@fixed, $rawline) if ($fix);
> >  
> > +		if ($rawline=~/^\+/) {
> > +		  $inserted_lines_total++
> 
> This counts patch header blocks with \+\+\+

Good catch. Will fix.

> 
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		if ($rawline=~/^-/) {
> > +		  $deleted_lines_total++
> > +		}
> 
> and \-\-\-

Ditto.

Thanks, Nick