From 3965292ad0ca70320f1c632f2ac3b886c88b9e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 15:05:23 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for array allocator family argument
order
These array allocator family are sometimes misused with the first and
second arguments switched.
Same issue with calloc, kvcalloc, kvmalloc_array etc.
Bleat if sizeof is the first argument.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5374345c-7973-6a3c-d559-73bf4ac15079@redhat.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221104070523.60296-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 29517897baa13..78cc595b98ce1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7146,7 +7146,7 @@ sub process {
}
# check for alloc argument mismatch
- if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?(?:kcalloc|kmalloc_array))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
+ if ($line =~ /\b((?:devm_)?((?:k|kv)?(calloc|malloc_array)(?:_node)?))\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
WARN("ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS",
"$1 uses number as first arg, sizeof is generally wrong\n" . $herecurr);
}
--
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