Functions like this one are evil:

void foo()
{
	...
}

Because these functions allow variadic arguments without
checking the arguments at all.

Original patch by Richard Weinberger.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

ether_addr_copy was added for kernel version 3.14.  It's slightly
smaller/faster for some arches.  Encourage its use.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This adds a simple check that any compatible strings in DeviceTree dts
files are present in Documentation/devicetree/bindings.  Vendor prefixes
are also checked for existing in vendor-prefixes.txt These should be
temporary checks until we have more sophisticated binding schema
checking.
Signed-off-by: NRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.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>

This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL
copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the
references to the gnu.org/licenses URL which appears to be used in
numerous drivers.  The idea is to still allow some reference to an
external copy of the GPL in the event that files are copied out of the
kernel tree without the COPYING file.

So for example this statement will still return an error:
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

However, this statement will not return an error after this patch:
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.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>

Kernel style uses function pointers in this form:
	"type (*funcptr)(args...)"

Emit warnings when this function pointer form isn't used.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Derek Perrin <d.roc16@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The FSF address check is a bit too verbose looking for the GPL text.
Quiet it a bit by requiring --strict for the GPL bit.

Also make the address tests match a few uses of abbreviations for street
names and make it case insensitive.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.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>

If statements don't need multiple parentheses around tested comparisons
like "if ((foo == bar))".

An == comparison maybe a sign of an intended assignment, so emit a
slightly different message if so.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.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>

This test should remove all the spaces before a tab not just one space.

Substitute a tab for each 8 space block before a tab and remove less than
8 spaces before a tab.

This SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test is done after CODE_INDENT.

If there are spaces used at the beginning of a line that should be
converted to tabs, please make sure that the CODE_INDENT test and
conversion is done before this SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test and conversion.
Reported-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.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>

Add the ability to fix and overwrite existing files/patches instead of
creating a new file "<filename>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes".
Suggested-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.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>

switch case statements missing a break statement are an unfortunately
common error.

e.g.:
  commit 4a2c94c9 ("HID: kye: Add report fixup for Genius Manticore Keyboard")

case blocks should end in a break/return/goto/continue.

If a fall-through is used, it should have a comment showing that it is
intentional.  Ideally that comment should be something like:
"/* fall-through */"

Add a test to look for missing break statements.

This looks only at the context lines before an inserted case so it's
possible to have false positives when the context contains a close brace
and the break is before the brace and not part of the patch context.

Looking at recent patches, this is a pretty rare occurrence.  The normal
kernel style uses a break as the last line of the previous block.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perche.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

gfp.h and page_alloc.c already specify that __GFP_NOFAIL is deprecated and
no new users should be added.

Add a warning to checkpatch to catch this.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>

The "space before a non-naked semicolon" test has unwanted output when
used in "for ( ;; )" loops.

Make the test work only on end-of-line statement termination semicolons.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.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>

The current checkpatch test for split strings does not find several
cases that should be found.

For instance:

 		/* Else poor success; go back to mode in "active" table */
 		} else {
 			IWL_DEBUG_RATE(mvm,
-				       "LQ: GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE suc=%d cur-tpt=%d old-tpt=%d\n",
+				       "GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE: SR %d "
+				       "cur-tpt %d old-tpt %d\n",
 				       window->success_ratio,
 				       window->average_tpt,
 				      lq_sta->last_tpt);

does not currently emit a warning.

Improve the test to find these cases.

Add more exceptions to reduce false positives for assembly and octal/hex
string constants.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Prefer use of the direct definition of struct pci_device_id instead of
indirection via macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.

Update the PCI documentation to deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.  Update
checkpatch adding --fix option.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NJingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>

checkpatch is currently confused about some complex macros and references
undefined variables $stat and $cond.

Make sure these are defined before using them.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NGerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>
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>

Naked use sscanf can be troublesome because the pointed to variables may
not have been set.

Add a warning when the sscanf return value is not used.

For now, do not add __must_check to the sscanf prototype because that will
cause a couple of hundred new warnings when compiling a kernel.
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>

Avoid prescribing kernel styled shortcuts for gcc extensions of
__attribute__((foo)) in the uapi include paths.

Fix $realfile filename when using -f/--file to not remove first level
directory as if the filename was used in a -P1 patch.  Only strip the
first level directory (typically a or b) for P1 patches.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.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>

Find a few more cases where parentheses are used around the value of a
return statement.

This now uses the "$balanced_parens" test and also makes the test depend
on perl v5.10 and higher.

This now finds return with parenthesis uses the old code did not find
like:

ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required
#211: FILE: arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3xflop.h:211:
+		return ((error == 0) ? 0 : -1);
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the FSF
has moved in the past and may do so again.

Make this an error for new code, but just a --strict CHK in --file mode;
anyone interested in doing tree-wide cleanups of this form can enable this
test explicitly.
Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>

Peter Zijlstra prefers that comments be required near uses of memory
barriers.

Change the message level for memory barrier uses from a --strict test only
to a normal WARN so it's always emitted.

This might produce false positives around insertions of memory barriers
when a comment is outside the patch context block.

And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence of any
comment, not at the comment content.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes
a section attribute conflict.

Add --fix capability too.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a test for these #defines

Additionally, moved string_find_replace sub as it screws up subsequent
formatting when placed inside another sub.
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>

Checkpatch doesn't currently find CamelCase definitions of structs, unions
or enums.

Add that ability.
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>

seq_vprintf, seq_printf and seq_puts are logging functions and should be
allowed to exceed the maximium line length.

Add maximum line length exceptions for these functions.

Also, suggesting seq_printf conversions to seq_puts should be tested for
arguments after the format.
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>

Extend the CamelCase words found to include structure members.

In https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/3/318 Sarah Sharp (mostly) wrote:

"In general, if checkpatch.pl complains about a variable a patch
introduces that's CamelCase, you should pay attention to it.  Otherwise,
[] ignore it."

So, if checking a patch, scan the original patched file if it's available
and add any preexisting CamelCase types so reuses do not generate
CamelCase messages.

That also means Andrew's not so cruelly spurned anymore.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/22/426Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NSarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.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>

Spaces around trigraphs are specified by CodingStyle but checkpatch is
currently silent about them because there are many current instances
without them.

Make missing spaces around trigraphs a --strict message.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The use of extern in .h files is a bit contentious.

Make the warning be emitted only when --strict is used on the command
line.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As discussed recently on the arm [1] and lm-sensors [2] lists, it is
possible to use section markers on variables in a way which gcc doesn't
understand (or at least not the way the developer intended):

static struct __initdata samsung_pll_clock exynos4_plls[nr_plls] = {

does NOT put exynos4_plls in the .initdata section.  The __initdata marker
can be virtually anywhere on the line, EXCEPT right after "struct".  The
preferred location is before the "=" sign if there is one, or before the
trailing ";" otherwise.

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/258149
[2] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2013-August/039836.html

So, update checkpatch to find these misuses and report an error when it's
immediately after struct or union, and a warning when it's otherwise not
immediately before the ; or =.

A similar patch was suggested by Andi Kleen
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/5/648Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: NGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A previous patch ("checkpatch: add --types option to report only
specific message types") uses a perl syntax introduced in perl version
5.14.

Use the backward compatible perl syntax instead.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NJulia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There are some cases where checkpatch can take a long time to complete.
Reduce the likelihood of this long run-time by adding a new test for lines
with and without comments and eliminating checks on lines with only
comments.

This reduces the number of "ctx_statement_block" calls, and also the
number of tests of $stat, which is now undefined for these blank lines.

One test in particular, the "check for switch/default statements without a
break", could take an extremely long time to parse as it tries to skip
interleaving comments within the ctx_statement_block/$stat and that could
be done multiple times unnecessarily.

A small test case taken from cfg80211.h before this patch would take
1000's of seconds to run, now it's just a couple seconds.
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>

Previous attempt at fixing SPACING errors could make a hash of several
defects.

This patch should make --fix be a lot better at correcting these defects.

Trim left and right sides of these defects appropriately instead of a
somewhat random attempt at it.

Trim left spaces from any following bit of the modified line when only a
single space is required around an operator.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.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>

The tracing subsystem uses slightly odd #defines to set path/directory
locations for include files.

These #defines can cause false positives for the complex macro tests so
add exclusions for these specific #defines (TRACE_SYSTEM,
TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE, TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH).
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.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>

Add a --types convenience option to show only specific message types.
Combined with the --fix option, this can produce specific suggested
formatting patches to files.
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>

checkpatch can generate a false positive when inserting a new kernel-doc
block and function above an existing kernel-doc block.

Fix it by checking that the context line is also a newly inserted line.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NDarren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using the extern keyword on function prototypes is superfluous visual
noise so suggest removing it.

Using extern can cause unnecessary line wrapping at 80 columns and
unnecessarily long multi-line function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Emit a warning when a signature is used more than once.
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 got a bug report from a couple of users who said checkpatch.pl was
broken for them.  It was erroring out on fairly random lines most commonly
with messages like:

	Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340.

The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was end-of-lifed
in 2008: http://www.cpan.org/src/.  Versions of perl this old are at
_best_ quite untested.  At worst, they are crusty and known to be
completely broken.

If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on them and
give them a half-decent error message rather than fail with nutty error
messages.

This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10, which was
end-of-lifed in 2009.  The new --ignore-perl-version command-line switch
will let folks override this if they want.
Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

$Lval is a test for complete name (ie: foo->bar.Baz[1])

If any of this is CamelCase, then the current test uses the entire $Lval.
This isn't optimal because it can emit messages with foo->bar.Baz and
bar.Baz when Baz is a variable specified in an include file.

So instead, break the $Lval into words and check each word for CamelCase
uses.
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>

Suggest a few more single-line corrections.

Remove DOS line endings
Simplify removing trailing whitespace
Remove global/static initializations to 0/NULL
Convert pr_warning to pr_warn
Add space after brace
Convert binary constants to hex
Remove whitespace after line continuation
Use inline not __inline or __inline__
Use __printf and __scanf
Use a single ; for statement terminations
Convert __FUNCTION__ to __func__
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>

Might as well check include timestamps and cache the include file
CamelCase uses for the non-git case too.

The camelcase cache file is now named:

  for git:      .checkpatch-camelcase.git.<commit_id>
  for non-git:  .checkpatch-camelcase.date.<YYYYMMDDhhmm>

All .checkpatch-camelcase* files are deleted if not current.
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>