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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-08-22 06:57:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 19:52:48 +0200 |
| commit | d729593e492e1e4c7cd8a418ee227d0bd4d5f36d (patch) | |
| tree | 364ee3dd079163719b1e75a0914517ecfc83cbc2 | |
| parent | lib/test_hexdump.c: fix failure on big endian cpu (diff) | |
| download | linux-d729593e492e1e4c7cd8a418ee227d0bd4d5f36d.tar.xz linux-d729593e492e1e4c7cd8a418ee227d0bd4d5f36d.zip | |
checkpatch: add a --strict test for structs with bool member definitions
A struct with a bool member can have different sizes on various
architectures because neither bool size nor alignment is standardized.
So emit a message on the use of bool in structs only in .h files and not
.c files.
There is the real possibility that this test could have a false positive
when a bool is declared as an automatic, so limit the test to .h files
where the only false positive is for declarations in static inline
functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/95477c93db187bab6da8a8ba7c57836868446179.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 447857ffaf6b..5cb7cfd08ce2 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6251,6 +6251,13 @@ sub process { "Avoid using bool as bitfield. Prefer bool bitfields as unsigned int or u<8|16|32>\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for bool use in .h files + if ($realfile =~ /\.h$/ && + $sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s*$Ident\s*(?::\s*d+\s*)?;/) { + CHK("BOOL_MEMBER", + "Avoid using bool structure members because of possible alignment issues - see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for semaphores initialized locked if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) { WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION", |