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authorLiao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>2022-11-04 15:05:23 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-11-30 16:13:16 -0800
commit3965292ad0ca70320f1c632f2ac3b886c88b9e80 (patch)
treee12b81168e39c29102ba566dd43238c872830a0f /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentd04bb0852b8bd31c53981a04ff0132698d24523d (diff)
downloadlinux-3965292ad0ca70320f1c632f2ac3b886c88b9e80.tar.bz2
checkpatch: add check for array allocator family argument order
These array allocator family are sometimes misused with the first and second arguments switched. Same issue with calloc, kvcalloc, kvmalloc_array etc. Bleat if sizeof is the first argument. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5374345c-7973-6a3c-d559-73bf4ac15079@redhat.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221104070523.60296-1-liaochang1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 29517897baa1..78cc595b98ce 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7146,7 +7146,7 @@ sub process {
}
# check for alloc argument mismatch
- if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?(?:kcalloc|kmalloc_array))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
+ if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?((?:k|kv)?(calloc|malloc_array)(?:_node)?))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
WARN("ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS",
"$1 uses number as first arg, sizeof is generally wrong\n" . $herecurr);
}