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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2017-11-18 00:28:41 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-18 01:10:02 +0100
commiteeef5733e30e736926c762fa3336c4dd5702bcdf (patch)
treebe1e6633c56967c6d8812a759c50bddb143dfd79 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentscripts/checkpatch.pl: avoid false warning missing break (diff)
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checkpatch: printks always need a KERN_<LEVEL>
There was code in checkpatch that allowed continuation printks to be used without KERN_CONT. Remove the continuation check and always require a KERN_<LEVEL>. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/61980ef41d5b9b6543da1c49055042e0ab74d308.1507047008.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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.pl26
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8dce8a8d9ed0..2a8c6c3c1bdb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3829,28 +3829,10 @@ sub process {
"Prefer printk_ratelimited or pr_<level>_ratelimited to printk_ratelimit\n" . $herecurr);
}
-# printk should use KERN_* levels. Note that follow on printk's on the
-# same line do not need a level, so we use the current block context
-# to try and find and validate the current printk. In summary the current
-# printk includes all preceding printk's which have no newline on the end.
-# we assume the first bad printk is the one to report.
- if ($line =~ /\bprintk\((?!KERN_)\s*"/) {
- my $ok = 0;
- for (my $ln = $linenr - 1; $ln >= $first_line; $ln--) {
- #print "CHECK<$lines[$ln - 1]\n";
- # we have a preceding printk if it ends
- # with "\n" ignore it, else it is to blame
- if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ m{\bprintk\(}) {
- if ($rawlines[$ln - 1] !~ m{\\n"}) {
- $ok = 1;
- }
- last;
- }
- }
- if ($ok == 0) {
- WARN("PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL",
- "printk() should include KERN_ facility level\n" . $herecurr);
- }
+# printk should use KERN_* levels
+ if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*(?!KERN_[A-Z]+\b)/) {
+ WARN("PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL",
+ "printk() should include KERN_<LEVEL> facility level\n" . $herecurr);
}
if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*KERN_([A-Z]+)/) {