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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2016-10-11 13:51:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:30 -0700
commitbf1fa1dae68e1b58b7b7fd61bde654d37da1de57 (patch)
treea49132ae5825b5876b19a79f847d84caa8f80bc0 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentf333195d41e15e7b105ca270c7662204a1a9d0f5 (diff)
checkpatch: externalize the structs that should be const
Make it easier to add new structs that should be const. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5a8da43e7c11525bafbda1ca69a8323614dd942.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl64
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 37d8b91ac198..4ecb66c595f4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ my $min_conf_desc_length = 4;
my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt";
my $codespell = 0;
my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
+my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch";
my $color = 1;
my $allow_c99_comments = 1;
@@ -624,6 +625,29 @@ if ($codespell) {
$misspellings = join("|", sort keys %spelling_fix) if keys %spelling_fix;
+my $const_structs = "";
+if (open(my $conststructs, '<', $conststructsfile)) {
+ while (<$conststructs>) {
+ my $line = $_;
+
+ $line =~ s/\s*\n?$//g;
+ $line =~ s/^\s*//g;
+
+ next if ($line =~ m/^\s*#/);
+ next if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/);
+ if ($line =~ /\s/) {
+ print("$conststructsfile: '$line' invalid - ignored\n");
+ next;
+ }
+
+ $const_structs .= '|' if ($const_structs ne "");
+ $const_structs .= $line;
+ }
+ close($conststructsfile);
+} else {
+ warn "No structs that should be const will be found - file '$conststructsfile': $!\n";
+}
+
sub build_types {
my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", (@modifierList, @modifierListFile)) . "\n)";
my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", (@typeList, @typeListFile)) . "\n)";
@@ -5912,46 +5936,6 @@ sub process {
}
# check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree)
- my $const_structs = qr{
- acpi_dock_ops|
- address_space_operations|
- backlight_ops|
- block_device_operations|
- dentry_operations|
- dev_pm_ops|
- dma_map_ops|
- extent_io_ops|
- file_lock_operations|
- file_operations|
- hv_ops|
- ide_dma_ops|
- intel_dvo_dev_ops|
- item_operations|
- iwl_ops|
- kgdb_arch|
- kgdb_io|
- kset_uevent_ops|
- lock_manager_operations|
- microcode_ops|
- mtrr_ops|
- neigh_ops|
- nlmsvc_binding|
- of_device_id|
- pci_raw_ops|
- pipe_buf_operations|
- platform_hibernation_ops|
- platform_suspend_ops|
- proto_ops|
- rpc_pipe_ops|
- seq_operations|
- snd_ac97_build_ops|
- soc_pcmcia_socket_ops|
- stacktrace_ops|
- sysfs_ops|
- tty_operations|
- uart_ops|
- usb_mon_operations|
- wd_ops}x;
if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
$line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b/) {
WARN("CONST_STRUCT",