checkpatch: avoid warning about uninitialized_var()

WARNING: function definition argument 'flags' should also have an identifier name
#26: FILE: drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:1348:
+       unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);

Special-case uninitialized_var() to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7db7944761b0bd88c70eb17d4b7f40fe589e14ed.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 460a6b5b9d9a..d64c67b67e3c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4071,7 +4071,7 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for function declarations without arguments like "int foo()"
-		if ($line =~ /(\b$Type\s+$Ident)\s*\(\s*\)/) {
+		if ($line =~ /(\b$Type\s*$Ident)\s*\(\s*\)/) {
 			if (ERROR("FUNCTION_WITHOUT_ARGS",
 				  "Bad function definition - $1() should probably be $1(void)\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
@@ -6287,13 +6287,17 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
+# while avoiding uninitialized_var(x)
 		if (defined $stat &&
-		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
-		    $1 ne "void") {
-			my $args = trim($1);
+		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:($Ident)|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
+		    (!defined($1) ||
+		     (defined($1) && $1 ne "uninitialized_var")) &&
+		     $2 ne "void") {
+			my $args = trim($2);
 			while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {
 				my $arg = trim($1);
-				if ($arg =~ /^$Type$/ && $arg !~ /enum\s+$Ident$/) {
+				if ($arg =~ /^$Type$/ &&
+					$arg !~ /enum\s+$Ident$/) {
 					WARN("FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS",
 					     "function definition argument '$arg' should also have an identifier name\n" . $herecurr);
 				}