The git commit message can be confusing,

Try to clarify the message a bit to reduce the confusion when emitted.

Show the correct form using
	Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")'
and if the git commit sha1 is unique, show
the right sha1 to use with the actual title
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NChris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Acked-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert all the comments to spaces before testing for single statement
macros.
Reported-by: NValdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of
config options as support for it will be dropped later on.

See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.comSigned-off-by: NChristoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com>
Suggested-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

KERN_<LEVEL> is never redundant with printk_ratelimited or printk_once.
(Except perhaps in the sense that you could use e.g.  pr_err_ratelimited
or pr_err_once, but that would apply to printk as well).
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Just like "__cold", ignore the __pure gcc attribute macro so pointer
warnings aren't generated for uses like "int * __pure fn(...)"
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add world writable permissions tests for the various functions like
debugfs etc...

Add $String type for $FuncArg so that string constants are matched.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since commit fe7c36c7 ("Makefile: Build with -Werror=date-time if
the compiler supports it"), use of __DATE__, __TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP__
has not been allowed.

As this test is gcc version specific (> 4.9), it hasn't prevented a few
new uses from creeping into the kernel sources.

Make checkpatch complain about them.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: NRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add --fix option to coalesce string fragments.

This does not coalesce string fragments that have newline terminations or
are otherwise exempted.

Other miscellanea:

o move all the string tests together.
o fix get_quoted_string function for tab characters
o fix concatination typo
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It seems there are more and more uses of "if (!ptr)" in preference to "if
(ptr == NULL)" so add a --strict test to emit a message when using the
latter form.

This also finds (ptr != NULL).

Fix it too if desired.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Emit a warning when single line string coalescing occurs.

Code that uses compiler string concatenation on a single line like:

    printk("foo" "bar");

is generally better to read concatenated like:

    printk("foobar");
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using BIT(foo) and BIT_ULL(bar) is more common now.  Suggest using these
macros over #defines with 1<<value.

Add a --fix option too.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Checkpatch flags CamelCase identifiers in strict mode, but it has a
feature to ignore parts with only two characters to allow for SI units
like mV or uA.  Unfortunately, not all SI units fit in two characters, and
not all are lower case followed by upper case.

This patch adds hardcoded detection for frequency and 1024-based size
units (Hz/KHz/MHz/GHz/THz and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB), since allowing any three
character combinations might be too lenient.  The list can later be
expanded as needed.
Signed-off-by: NJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Peter Hurley wrote:

The use of older function ptr calling style, (*fn)(), makes static
analysis more error-prone; replace with modern fn() style.

So make checkpatch emit a --strict test for that condition.

Update the unnecessary parentheses test for dereferencing
objects at the same time and create a $fix mechanism too.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.

Reported by many people.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Shift has a higher precedence that mask so warn when a mask then shift
operation is done without parentheses around the mask.

This test works well for a right shift, but the left shift is pretty
commonly done correctly so only warn on the right shift.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 66b47b4a ("checkpatch: look for common misspellings") made it
difficult to use checkpatch via a symlink.

Fix that and make a missing spelling.txt file non-fatal.  Emit a warning
when the spelling.txt file can not be opened.

Reference: http://xkcd.com/1172/Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: NJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add an 'and' to the sentence so that it looks better:

  WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required
Signed-off-by: NFabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

sizeof(foo) is not a cast, allow a space after it.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: NKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using weak declarations can have unintended link defects.  The __weak on
the declaration causes non-weak definitions to become weak.

Emit an error on its use.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using code like:

    int foo , bar;

is not preferred to:

    int foo, bar;

so emit an error on this style.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Warn on probable misuses of logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
like pr_err(KERN_ERR "foo\n");
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add an exception to the return before else warning when the line
following it is also a return like:

	if (foo)
		return bar;
	else
		return baz;

This form of a test then return is at least as readable as

	if (foo)
		return bar;
	return baz;

so don't emit a warning on the first form.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Elshad Mustafayev <elshadimo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list.  Several false
positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
common in the kernel:

	backword backwords
	invalide valide
	recieves
	singed unsinged

While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.

In the 13830 commits between 3.15 and 3.16, the script would have noticed
560 spelling mistakes. The top 25 are shown here:

$ git log --pretty=oneline v3.15..v3.16 | wc -l
13830
$ git log --format='%H' v3.15..v3.16 | \
   while read commit ; do \
     echo "commit $commit" ; \
     git log --format=email --stat -p -1 $commit | \
       ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=typo_spelling --no-summary - ; \
   done | tee spell_v3.15..v3.16.txt | grep "may be misspelled" | \
   awk '{print $2}' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     21 'seperate'
     17 'endianess'
     15 'sucess'
     13 'noticable'
     11 'occured'
     11 'accomodate'
     10 'interrup'
      9 'prefered'
      8 'unecessary'
      8 'explicitely'
      7 'supress'
      7 'overriden'
      7 'immediatly'
      7 'funtion'
      7 'defult'
      7 'childs'
      6 'succesful'
      6 'splitted'
      6 'specifc'
      6 'reseting'
      6 'recieve'
      6 'changable'
      5 'tmis'
      5 'singed'
      5 'preceeding'

Thanks to Joe Perches for rewrites, suggestions, additional misspelling
entries, and testing.
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Macros with flow control statements (goto and return) are not very nice to
read as any flow movement is unexpected.

Try to highlight them and emit a warning on their definition.

Avoid warning on macros that use argument concatenation as those macros
commonly create another function where the concatenation is used in the
function name definition like:

	#define FOO_FUNC(name, rtn_type)	\
	rtn_type func##name(arg1, ...)		\
	{					\
		rtn_type rtn;			\
		[code...]			\
		return rtn;			\
	}
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's a useless "+" use that needs to be removed as perl 5.20 emits a
"Useless use of greediness modifier '+'" message each time it's hit.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NGreg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using a space between concatenated string elements is easier for a human
to read.

ie:
	"String"FOO"bar"

is easier to read as:

	"String" FOO "bar"

So suggest this style with a --strict command line option.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This script is used by many other projects, and in some of them the
requirement of at least 4 line long description for all Kconfig items is
excessive.  This patch adds a command line option to control the required
minimum length.

Tested running this script over a patch including a two line config
description.  The script generated a warning when invoked as is, and did
not generate it when invoked with --min-conf-desc-length=2.
Signed-off-by: NVadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When run on *.dtsi or *.dts files, the whitespace checks were skipped,
while they are valid for DTS files.  Hence stop skipping them.

I ran checkpatch on all in-tree DTS files, and didn't notice any error or
warning messages that are inappropriate for DTS files.
Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Several architectures (e.g.  x86, MIPS, Blackfin) have asm/reboot.h and
asm/time.h header files, which are not included in linux/reboot.h and
linux/time.h headers.  This lead to generation of false positive errors.
Signed-off-by: NSergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

An unnecessary --fix debugging left-over is removed.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The plural of parenthesis is parentheses.

Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The general form for commit id and description is

  'Commit <12+hexdigits> ("commit description/subject line")'

but commit logs often have relatively long commit ids and the commit
description emds on the next line like:

  Some explanation as to why commit <12+hexdigits>
  ("commit foo description/subject line") is improved.

Allow this form.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Tested-by: NJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Suggested-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Checkpatch currently warns if a git commit ID (in the changelog,
usually) is less than 12 characters or more than 16.  The "more than 16"
is excessive.  Change the check so we accept IDs from 12 to 40 chars in
length.

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using uninitialized_var reports a false positive for "Missing blank line
after declarations".

Fix it by adding uninitialized_var to the $declaration_macros exceptions
list.

Move the macro list after $Type is declared.

Add optional prefixes to DECLARE_<FOO> and DEFINE_<BAR>
macro declarations to allow forms like:
	MLX4_DECLARE_DOORBELL_LOCK
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NDotan Barak <dotanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Checkpatch already complains when people break up quoted strings but
it's still pretty common.  One mistake that people often make is they
leave out the space character between the two strings.

This check adds around 450 new warnings and has a low rate of false
positives.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 89da401f6cff ("checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test")
in -next improved the cast test for non pointer types, but also
introduced false positives for some types of static inlines.

Add a test for an open brace to the exclusions to avoid these false
positives.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NHartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using --file mode can give false positives with MISSING_BREAK
fall-through warnings on simple but long multiple consecutive case
statements.

Look for all lines before a case statement for a switch or a statement
when using --file mode.

Fix a misspelling of preceded while there.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

c90 section "6.7.2 Type Specifiers" says:
    "type specifiers may occur in any order"

That means that:
    short int is the same as int short
    unsigned short int is the same as int unsigned short
    etc...

checkpatch currently parses only a subset of these allowed types.

For instance: "unsigned short" and "signed short" are found by
checkpatch as a specific type, but none of the or "int short" or "int
signed short" variants are found.

Add another table for the "kernel style misordered" variants.

Add this misordered table to the findable types.

Warn when the misordered style is used.

This improves the "Missing a blank line after declarations" test as it
depends on the correct parsing of the $Declare variable which looks for
"$Type $Ident;" (ie: declarations like "int foo;").
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Current generic types are unsigned or unspecified.  Add signed to the
types.

Reorder the types to find the longest match first.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

short int is one of the 6.7.2 c90 types.
Find it appropriately.

This fixes a defect in checkpatch where it suggests that a line break
after declaration is required using an input like:

	int foo;
	short int bar;

Without this change, it warns on the short int line.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NHartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>