linux-kernel - [PATCH V2] checkpatch: Emit an error on formats with 0x%<decimal>

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Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:56:28 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2] checkpatch: Emit an error on formats with 0x%<decimal>

Using 0x%d is wrong.  Emit a message when it happens.

Miscellanea:

improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 50693f5..e367eab 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4816,16 +4816,20 @@ sub process {
 			     "Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
-# check for %L{u,d,i} in strings
+# check for %L{u,d,i} and 0x%[udi] in strings
 		my $string;
 		while ($line =~ /(?:^|")([X\t]*)(?:"|$)/g) {
 			$string = substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]);
 			$string =~ s/%%/__/g;
-			if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%L[udi]/) {
+			if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%[\*\d\.\$]*L[udi]/) {
 				WARN("PRINTF_L",
 				     "\%Ld/%Lu are not-standard C, use %lld/%llu\n" . $herecurr);
 				last;
 			}
+			if ($string =~ /0x%[\*\d\.\$\Llzth]*[udi]/) {
+				ERROR("PRINTF_0xDECIMAL",
+				      "Prefixing 0x with decimal output is defective\n" . $herecurr);
+			}
 		}
 
 # check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of "
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