Commit caf2a54f authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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scripts/checkpatch.pl: add check for multiple terminating semicolons and casts of vmalloc 



Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 78c377d1

scripts/checkpatch.pl

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@@ -2785,10 +2785,15 @@ sub process { 
		}



# check for pointless casting of kmalloc return

		if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*k[czm]alloc\b/) {

		if ($line =~ /\*\s*\)\s*[kv][czm]alloc(_node){0,1}\b/) {

			WARN("unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# check for multiple semicolons

		if ($line =~ /;\s*;\s*$/) {

		    WARN("Statements terminations use 1 semicolon\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# check for gcc specific __FUNCTION__

		if ($line =~ /__FUNCTION__/) {

			WARN("__func__ should be used instead of gcc specific __FUNCTION__\n"  . $herecurr);

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