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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-06-03 14:18:09 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2020-07-16 12:32:26 -0700
commitd8b44b58a7073b4d74b3394131eb449e8469396b (patch)
tree9fdce9d5ec46cb3e84b18881182402317cfef747
parentfea1120c56e2d5db1cfea67d455edea3f4f97947 (diff)
downloadlinux-d8b44b58a7073b4d74b3394131eb449e8469396b.tar.bz2
checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1] (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], partially revert commit 16b7f3c89907 ("checkpatch: avoid warning about uninitialized_var()") and remove all remaining mentions of uninitialized_var(). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl16
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4c820607540b..60b737e222fe 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -840,7 +840,6 @@ our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant|$String)};
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*\(|
- (?:$Storage\s+)?${Type}\s+uninitialized_var\s*\(|
(?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(
)};
@@ -6330,8 +6329,7 @@ sub process {
if (defined $cond) {
substr($s, 0, length($cond), '');
}
- if ($s =~ /^\s*;/ &&
- $function_name ne 'uninitialized_var')
+ if ($s =~ /^\s*;/)
{
WARN("AVOID_EXTERNS",
"externs should be avoided in .c files\n" . $herecurr);
@@ -6350,17 +6348,13 @@ sub process {
}
# check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
-# while avoiding uninitialized_var(x)
if (defined $stat &&
- $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:($Ident)|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
- (!defined($1) ||
- (defined($1) && $1 ne "uninitialized_var")) &&
- $2 ne "void") {
- my $args = trim($2);
+ $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
+ $1 ne "void") {
+ my $args = trim($1);
while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {
my $arg = trim($1);
- if ($arg =~ /^$Type$/ &&
- $arg !~ /enum\s+$Ident$/) {
+ if ($arg =~ /^$Type$/ && $arg !~ /enum\s+$Ident$/) {
WARN("FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS",
"function definition argument '$arg' should also have an identifier name\n" . $herecurr);
}