Some false positives exist on this test.

For instance:
	*va_arg(args, signed char *) = val.s;
or
	memset(foo, 0, sizeof(struct bar *) * baz));

Ignore lines that have an arithmetic operator or assignment
after what appears to be a cast to a pointer "(foo *)".

Add $Arithmetic convenience variable.
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>

Comparing to true or false is error prone.

Add tests for the various forms of (foo == true) && (false != bar)
that are only reported with --strict.
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>

Check to make sure the blank lines aren't comment lines like:

  bool foo(bool bar)
  {
	/* Don't warn on a leading comment */
	return !bar;
	/* Don't warn on a trailing comment either */
  }
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>

Figure out first how to determine if this is in a struct declaration or in
a function body before enabling this.
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>

Allow "#define foo struct.member" without bleating a warning.

This also allows "#define foo bar.baz->qux" and so on.
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>

Comparing get_jiffies_64() is almost always wrong and time_before64 and
time_after64 should be used instead.

Warn on any comparison to get_jiffies_64().
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>

Comparing jiffies is almost always wrong and time_before and time_after
should be used instead.

Warn on any comparison to jiffies.
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>

Some block comments in network are written as:

	/* block comment line 1
	   block comment line 2
	 */

Emit a warning on the "block comment line 2" because it should be

	/* block comment line 1
	 * block comment line 2
	 */

This warning is only emitted on the second line of a block comment.
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>

Show the first line of the comment after a line with just /* to better
show where the defective comment style is in the file.
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 be987d9f ("checkpatch: improve CamelCase test for Page") added
it but it shouldn't be there.  Must have been my fault.

Make sure that the tested variable doesn't contain a constant.
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 another test for memory allocation style to follow
Documentation/CodingStyle:

		Chapter 14: Allocating memory

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
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 gcc extension for binary constants that start with 0b is only
supported with gcc version 4.3 or higher.

The kernel can still be compiled with earlier versions of gcc, so have
checkpatch emit a warning for these constants.

Restructure checkpatch's constant finding code a bit to support finding
these binary constants.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Do not bleat a message on nominally acceptable CamelCase uses that are
separated by an _ like drm_core_has_MTRR.

CamelCase tests are also a bit noisy against certain types of code
acceptable to some kernel developers.

Make the test applicable only with --strict.
Signed-off-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>

As people started using Suggested-by as standard signature, adding
"Suggested-by" to the standard signature so that checkpatch won't
generate warning when Suggested-by is used in patch signature
Signed-off-by: NMugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.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>

This check was intended to catch extra newlines at the end of a function
definition, but it would trigger on any closing brace, including those
of inline functions and macro definitions, triggering false positives.
Now, only closing braces on a line by themselves trigger this check.

Tested with:

$ cat test.h
/* test.h - Test file */

static inline int foo(void) { return 0; }

static inline int bar(void)
{
        return 1;

}

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f test.h # Before this commit
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+static inline int foo(void) { return 0; }

CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}

total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 2 checks, 9 lines checked

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f test.h # After this commit
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
+
+}

total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 1 checks, 9 lines checked
Signed-off-by: NMatthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
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>

Make space before semicolon a warning instead of a --strict CHK test.
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>

Complain about files with an executable bit set that are not in a scripts/
directory and are not type .pl, .py, .awk, or .sh

Based on an initial patch from Stephen.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a check for seq_printf use with a constant format without additional
arguments.  Suggest seq_puts instead.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 13:30 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> If krealloc() returns NULL, it *doesn't* free the original. So any code
> of the form 'foo = krealloc(foo, …);' is almost certainly a bug.

So add a check for it to checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: NGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: NGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix checkpatch misreporting defect with stringification macros

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
  #27: FILE: arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h:41:
  +#define ___to_string(X) #X
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NVincent Stehlé <v-stehle@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add the ClearPage/SetPage/TestClearPage/TestSetPage variants to the not
reported Page CamelCase variables.
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>

Do not test udelay() for a value less than 10usec when passed a variable
instead of a hard-coded number; there is no way for checkpatch to know the
value of the variable.  As it is today, it will complain about variables
with alphanumeric characters plus '_', e.g.  foo_bar, but not variables
with other characters, eg.  foo->bar.
Signed-off-by: NBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.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>

kcalloc is sometimes misused with the first and second arguments switched.

Same issue with kmalloc_array too.

Bleat if sizeof is the first argument
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>

I'm getting a ton of these:

  WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <PageTransHuge>
  #140: FILE: mm/migrate.c:1576:
  +       if (PageTransHuge(page) && page_count(page) != 3) {

So exclude anything which starts with "Page".
Tested-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>

Get people to stop adding __devinit and __devexit section markings.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add YA check to printk style.

dev_<level> uses are functions and generate smaller
object code than dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL>.
Signed-off-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>

Commit 74349bcc ("checkpatch: add support for floating point
constants") added an unnecessary match variable that caused tests that
used a $Constant or $LvalOrFunc to have one too many matches.

This causes problems with usleep_range, min/max and other extended
tests.

Avoid using match variables in $Float.
Avoid using match variables in $Assignment too.
Signed-off-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>

Avoid specifying internal uapi #include paths with uapi/...  as
userspace should not use and never see that.

Neaten message line wrapping above.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.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>

Store the camelcase variables in a hash and only emit a warning on the
first use of each new variable.
Signed-off-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>

Even though the kernel doesn't support using floating point constants,
add a regex for them.

Support forms like: 0x123p1, 123e-1, 1.23, 1.5e23f
Signed-off-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>

Hexadecimal values are current found in 2 parts.  A hex constant like
0x123456abcdef is found as 0 and then x123456abcdef and later coalesced.

Instead, reverse the order of the 2 searches in $Constant to find 0x
first, then 0 so that the entire hex constant is found all at once.
Signed-off-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>

switch default case is sometimes written as "default:;".  This can cause
new cases added below the default to be defective.

Suggest adding a break; after empty default cases to avoid fallthrough
defects.

Fixed indentation in the other semicolon test above it.
Suggested-by: NPeter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-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>

spinlock_t should always be used.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: N"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Blank lines around braces are not unnecessary.  Emit a message on the use
of these blank lines only when using --strict.

int foo(int bar)
{

	something or other....

}

is generally written in the kernel as:

int foo(int bar)
{
	something or other...
}
Signed-off-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>

Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be allowed to have a
line continuation.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: NJingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some projects might want a longer line length so allow a command line
--max-line-length=n control over the long line warnings.  The default line
length is 80.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Constantine Shulyupin <const@makelinux.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>

Consolidate the if (foo) bar(foo) detectors into a single check.  Add
debugfs_remove and family.

Based on a patch by Constantine Shulyupin.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Constantine Shulyupin <const@MakeLinux.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>

In commit 9c0ece06 ("Get rid of Documentation/feature-removal.txt"),
Linus removes feature-removal-schedule.txt from Documentation, but there
is still some reference to this file.  So remove them.
Signed-off-by: NTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Acked-by: NAndy 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>

This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default.  As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, it is being removed.  This will discourage future addition of
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL while it is being phased out.
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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>

When the previous line is not a line continuation and the current line has
a line continuation but is not a #define, emit a warning.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.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>