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Message-ID: <20121120154443.GK7955@dm>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:44:43 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add double empty line check

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:07:07PM +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 14:43 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > > > Also this fails if the fragment
> > > > is at the top of the hunk emiting a perl warning.
> > > 
> > > I did not see this warning. Can you please share this example? I tried
> > > adding a couple of empty lines at the beginning of a file and it seemed
> > > to work just fine for me (using perl v5.14.2).lines
> > 
> > Ok, this is actually if it is at the bottom, not the top.  So if you
> > have a range of lines newly added to the bottom of the file.  Leading to
> > this warning:
> > 
> > Use of uninitialized value within @rawlines in pattern match (m//) at
> > ../checkpatch/scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3586.
> 
> Oh... of course, I should have seen that. I did not check changes at the
> end of the file.
> 
> What do you say about something like that (using nextline out of
> rawlines only if it defined):
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 21a9f5d..c0c610c 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3579,6 +3579,19 @@ sub process {
>                         WARN("EXPORTED_WORLD_WRITABLE",
>                              "Exporting world writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.
>                 }
> +
> +# check for double empty lines
> +               if ($line =~ /^\+\s*$/) {
> +                       my $nextline = "";
> +                       if (defined($rawlines[$linenr])) {
> +                               $nextline = $rawlines[$linenr];
> +                       }
> +                       if ($nextline =~ /^\s*$/ ||
> +                           $prevline =~ /^\+?\s*$/ && $nextline !~ /^\+\s*$/) {
> +                               CHK("DOUBLE_EMPTY_LINE",
> +                                   "One empty line should be sufficient. Consider removing this one.\n" . $herecurr);
> +                       }
> +               }
>         }
>  
> 
> 

You cannot really rely on nextline even if valid as it may not even be
from this hunk.  This is why in my attempt I detected the top of a long
run of blanks and let the hunk start initialisation reset the detector.

-apw

>From 6556d7bc2f9447e1d179c1dd32a618b124c26e46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:17:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: strict warning for multiple blank lines

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fb67d47..ae01b90 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1413,6 +1413,7 @@ sub process {
 	my %suppress_whiletrailers;
 	my %suppress_export;
 	my $suppress_statement = 0;
+	my $suppress_multipleblank = -1;
 
 	# Pre-scan the patch sanitizing the lines.
 	# Pre-scan the patch looking for any __setup documentation.
@@ -1523,6 +1524,7 @@ sub process {
 			%suppress_whiletrailers = ();
 			%suppress_export = ();
 			$suppress_statement = 0;
+			$suppress_multipleblank = -1;
 			next;
 
 # track the line number as we move through the hunk, note that
@@ -1945,6 +1947,15 @@ sub process {
 			      "use the SSYNC() macro in asm/blackfin.h\n" . $herevet);
 		}
 
+# multiple blank lines.
+		if ($line =~ /^-/ || ($suppress_multipleblank == $linenr && $line =~ /^[ \+]\s*$/)) {
+			$suppress_multipleblank++;
+		} elsif ($prevline =~ /^\+\s*$/ and $line =~ /^\+\s*$/) {
+			$suppress_multipleblank = $linenr + 1;
+			CHK("MULTIPLE_EMPTY_LINE",
+			    "One empty line should be sufficient. Consider removing this one.\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # Check for potential 'bare' types
 		my ($stat, $cond, $line_nr_next, $remain_next, $off_next,
 		    $realline_next);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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