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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:24:54 -0700
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH next v2 2/3] checkpatch: add ethtool_sprintf rules
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 3:12 PM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:56:08PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > Add some warnings for using ethtool_sprintf() where a simple
> > ethtool_puts() would suffice.
> >
> > The two cases are:
> >
> > 1) Use ethtool_sprintf() with just two arguments:
> > | ethtool_sprintf(&data, driver[i].name);
> > or
> > 2) Use ethtool_sprintf() with a standalone "%s" fmt string:
> > | ethtool_sprintf(&data, "%s", driver[i].name);
> >
> > The former may cause -Wformat-security warnings while the latter is just
> > not preferred. Both are safely in the category of warnings, not errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
> > ---
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 25fdb7fda112..22f007131337 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -7011,6 +7011,25 @@ sub process {
> > "Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n" . $herecurr);
> > }
> >
> > +# ethtool_sprintf uses that should likely be ethtool_puts
> > + if ($line =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
> > + if(WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF",
> > + "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with only two arguments\n" . $herecurr) &&
> > + $fix) {
> > + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/ethtool_sprintf\s*\(/ethtool_puts\(/;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus we can't match against it.
> > + if ($rawline =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
> > + if(WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF",
> > + "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with standalone \"%s\" specifier\n" . $herecurr) &&
> > + $fix) {
> > + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/ethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*(.*?),.*?,(.*?)\)/ethtool_puts\($1,$2)/;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > +
> > # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
> > if ($perl_version_ok &&
> > defined $stat &&
> >
> > --
> > 2.42.0.820.g83a721a137-goog
> >
>
> I don't really know Perl, but does the indentation and coding style here
> conform to any rules, or is it just free-form? The rest of the script
> looks almost as you'd expect from C. This is unreadable to me.
There was some discussion here [1] but AFAICT I need to use EMACS
or configure my vim in a very particular way to get the same formatting
But yeah, look around line 7000 -- lots of this pattern matching code is
pretty hard to read. Not sure there's much to be done as far as readability
is concerned.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/137a309b313cc8a295f3affc704f0da049f233aa.camel@perches.com/
Thanks
Justin
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