linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: add MA_STATE to declaration

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Message-ID: <aRFvlrdwcB69JXWh@rli9-mobl>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:52:38 +0800
From: Philip Li <philip.li@...el.com>
To: <jim.cromie@...il.com>
CC: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<akpm@...uxfoundation.org>, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, Andy Whitcroft
	<apw@...onical.com>, Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn
	<lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: add MA_STATE to declaration_macros

On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 08:09:47AM -0700, jim.cromie@...il.com wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2025-11-08 at 16:47 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > > MA_STATE is used repeatedly as a declaration, add it to the list.
> >
> > OK but
> >
> > > I left out the $Storage regex component, since I saw no cases wanting
> > > it, via: $> grep -r -B1 '\bMA_STATE' .
> > >
> > > This change fixes the following, reproduced locally.
> >
> > No following ?
> 
> the oe-kbuild report followed, but the link didnt work right..
> 
> >
> > And I looked at the MA_STATE macro definition that has
> > several NULL or zero unnecessary member initializations
> > but doesn't initialize the entire structure as all
> > non-named members are NULL or zero by default.
> >
> > I wonder if the unnecessary NULL/0 initializations there
> > could actually increase the object size.
> >
> > With gcc 15.2.1 allyesconfig & defconfig do not change
> > either way but I don't know if all supported versions
> > minimize the initialization properly.
> >
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511071306.OJpTf7fK-lkp@intel.com/
> >
> > This Closes: url is not found on lore
> 
> That is weird.
> when I follow the Closes link, I get something unexpected - a "not
> found - look here maybe",
> AND a ../oe-kbuild/ link -
> clicking that takes me to the report proper.
> 
> If you retry, you can edit the "-all" out of the URL and it works.
> 
> It sounds like a small bug somewhere in the lkp-robot CI chain.

Sorry, this is a bug in the bot, i will fix it to point to the right
link oe-kbuild for these manual check reports.

> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > index e722dd6fa8ef..4b5e2e64dece 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > @@ -1096,7 +1096,8 @@ our $declaration_macros = qr{(?x:
> > >       (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]*_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-9]+){1,6}\s*\(|
> > >       (?:$Storage\s+)?[HLP]?LIST_HEAD\s*\(|
> > >       (?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(|
> > > -     (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(
> > > +     (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(|
> > > +     (?:MA_STATE)\s*\(
> > >  )};
> > >
> > >  our %allow_repeated_words = (
>