checkpatch: add checks for do {} while (0) macro misuses
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:41:24 +0000 (14:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:25:17 +0000 (17:25 -0700)
These types of macros should not be used for either a single statement
nor should the macro end with a semi-colon.

Add tests for these conditions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index 40b0627aeb5e57731892c3c2b470f9da95888644..913d6bdfdda3ecb44f521af79980019d5a531399 100755 (executable)
@@ -2988,6 +2988,45 @@ sub process {
                        }
                }
 
+# do {} while (0) macro tests:
+# single-statement macros do not need to be enclosed in do while (0) loop,
+# macro should not end with a semicolon
+               if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+                   $realfile !~ m@/vmlinux.lds.h$@ &&
+                   $line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s+$Ident(\()?/) {
+                       my $ln = $linenr;
+                       my $cnt = $realcnt;
+                       my ($off, $dstat, $dcond, $rest);
+                       my $ctx = '';
+                       ($dstat, $dcond, $ln, $cnt, $off) =
+                               ctx_statement_block($linenr, $realcnt, 0);
+                       $ctx = $dstat;
+
+                       $dstat =~ s/\\\n.//g;
+
+                       if ($dstat =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+$Ident\s*${balanced_parens}\s*do\s*{(.*)\s*}\s*while\s*\(\s*0\s*\)\s*([;\s]*)\s*$/) {
+                               my $stmts = $2;
+                               my $semis = $3;
+
+                               $ctx =~ s/\n*$//;
+                               my $cnt = statement_rawlines($ctx);
+                               my $herectx = $here . "\n";
+
+                               for (my $n = 0; $n < $cnt; $n++) {
+                                       $herectx .= raw_line($linenr, $n) . "\n";
+                               }
+
+                               if (($stmts =~ tr/;/;/) == 1) {
+                                       WARN("SINGLE_STATEMENT_DO_WHILE_MACRO",
+                                            "Single statement macros should not use a do {} while (0) loop\n" . "$herectx");
+                               }
+                               if (defined $semis && $semis ne "") {
+                                       WARN("DO_WHILE_MACRO_WITH_TRAILING_SEMICOLON",
+                                            "do {} while (0) macros should not be semicolon terminated\n" . "$herectx");
+                               }
+                       }
+               }
+
 # make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
 # all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
 #      .