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authorBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2015-12-29 12:18:46 +0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-02-23 19:59:53 -0800
commitad315455d396a1cbcb2f9fdd687b7e1b26b789e7 (patch)
treeec1d39c7dda0349ac5a29cbcb5c02a43532dd61d /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent1914aab54319ed70608078df4f18ac4767753977 (diff)
downloadlinux-ad315455d396a1cbcb2f9fdd687b7e1b26b789e7.tar.bz2
sparse: Add __private to privatize members of structs
In C programming language, we don't have a easy way to privatize a member of a structure. However in kernel, sometimes there is a need to privatize a member in case of potential bugs or misuses. Fortunately, the noderef attribute of sparse is a way to privatize a member, as by defining a member as noderef, the address-of operator on the member will produce a noderef pointer to that member, and if anyone wants to dereference that kind of pointers to read or modify the member, sparse will yell. Based on this, __private modifier and related operation ACCESS_PRIVATE() are introduced, which could help detect undesigned public uses of private members of structs. Here is an example of sparse's output if it detect an undersigned public use: | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers) | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: expected struct raw_spinlock [usertype] *lock | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: got struct raw_spinlock [noderef] *<noident> Also, this patch improves compiler.h a little bit by adding comments for "#else" and "#endif". Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0147c91fa549..874132b26d23 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ our $Sparse = qr{
__init_refok|
__kprobes|
__ref|
- __rcu
+ __rcu|
+ __private
}x;
our $InitAttributePrefix = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)};
our $InitAttributeData = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initdata\b)};