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Message-ID: <20111129212851.GA6165@shadowen.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:28:51 +0000
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve memset and min/max with cast checking
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:24:30PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Improve the checking of arguments to memset and min/max tests.
>
> Move the checking of min/max to statement blocks instead of single line.
> Change $Constant to allow any case type 0x initiator and trailing ul specifier.
> Add $FuncArg type as any function argument with or without a cast.
> Print the whole statement when showing memset or min/max messages.
> Improve the memset with 0 as 3rd argument error message.
>
> There are still weaknesses in the $FuncArg and $Constant code as
> arbitrary parentheses and negative signs are not generically supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> ---
>
> On top of Andy's 0/11 series.
>
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 59435a9..d72a71e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ our $Inline = qr{inline|__always_inline|noinline};
> our $Member = qr{->$Ident|\.$Ident|\[[^]]*\]};
> our $Lval = qr{$Ident(?:$Member)*};
>
> -our $Constant = qr{(?:[0-9]+|0x[0-9a-fA-F]+)[UL]*};
> +our $Constant = qr{(?i:[0-9]+|0x[0-9a-f]+)[ul]*};
This should actually be as below so that the UL is included in the case
insensitive match:
our $Constant = qr{(?i:(?:[0-9]+|0x[0-9a-f]+)[ul]*)};
Other than that it looks good passing my testing.
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Applied to my next branch.
> our $Assignment = qr{(?:\*\=|/=|%=|\+=|-=|<<=|>>=|&=|\^=|\|=|=)};
> our $Compare = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|>};
> our $Operators = qr{
> @@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ our $match_balanced_parentheses = qr/(\((?:[^\(\)]+|(-1))*\))/;
>
> our $Typecast = qr{\s*(\(\s*$NonptrType\s*\)){0,1}\s*};
> our $LvalOrFunc = qr{($Lval)\s*($match_balanced_parentheses{0,1})\s*};
> +our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant)};
>
> sub deparenthesize {
> my ($string) = @_;
> @@ -2633,28 +2634,6 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
>
> -# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
> - if ($line =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\b(min|max)\s*\($Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc)\s*,\s*$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc)\s*\)/) {
> - if (defined $2 || defined $8) {
> - my $call = $1;
> - my $cast1 = deparenthesize($2);
> - my $arg1 = $3;
> - my $cast2 = deparenthesize($8);
> - my $arg2 = $9;
> - my $cast;
> -
> - if ($cast1 ne "" && $cast2 ne "") {
> - $cast = "$cast1 or $cast2";
> - } elsif ($cast1 ne "") {
> - $cast = $cast1;
> - } else {
> - $cast = $cast2;
> - }
> - WARN("MINMAX",
> - "$call() should probably be ${call}_t($cast, $arg1, $arg2)\n" . $herecurr);
> - }
> - }
> -
> # Need a space before open parenthesis after if, while etc
> if ($line=~/\b(if|while|for|switch)\(/) {
> ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
> @@ -3148,24 +3127,42 @@ sub process {
> }
>
> # Check for misused memsets
> - if (defined $stat && $stat =~ /\bmemset\s*\((.*)\)/s) {
> - my $args = $1;
> + if (defined $stat &&
> + $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/s) {
> +
> + my $ms_addr = $2;
> + my $ms_val = $8;
> + my $ms_size = $14;
>
> - # Flatten any parentheses and braces
> - while ($args =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/10/s ||
> - $args =~ s/\{[^\{\}]*\}/10/s ||
> - $args =~ s/\[[^\[\]]*\]/10/s)
> - {
> - }
> - # Extract the simplified arguments.
> - my ($ms_addr, $ms_val, $ms_size) =
> - split(/\s*,\s*/, $args);
> if ($ms_size =~ /^(0x|)0$/i) {
> ERROR("MEMSET",
> - "memset size is 3rd argument, not the second.\n" . $herecurr);
> + "memset to 0's uses 0 as the 2nd argument, not the 3rd\n" . "$here\n$stat\n");
> } elsif ($ms_size =~ /^(0x|)1$/i) {
> WARN("MEMSET",
> - "single byte memset is suspicious. Swapped 2nd/3rd argument?\n" . $herecurr);
> + "single byte memset is suspicious. Swapped 2nd/3rd argument?\n" . "$here\n$stat\n");
> + }
> + }
> +
> +# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
> + if (defined $stat &&
> + $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\b(min|max)\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
> + if (defined $2 || defined $8) {
> + my $call = $1;
> + my $cast1 = deparenthesize($2);
> + my $arg1 = $3;
> + my $cast2 = deparenthesize($8);
> + my $arg2 = $9;
> + my $cast;
> +
> + if ($cast1 ne "" && $cast2 ne "") {
> + $cast = "$cast1 or $cast2";
> + } elsif ($cast1 ne "") {
> + $cast = $cast1;
> + } else {
> + $cast = $cast2;
> + }
> + WARN("MINMAX",
> + "$call() should probably be ${call}_t($cast, $arg1, $arg2)\n" . "$here\n$stat\n");
> }
> }
-apw
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