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| author |   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-08-21 21:57:50 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:48 -0700 |
| commit | 4cab63cea374c684eb0db352b40a09e3f7c45057 (patch) | |
| tree | a6b088095c1b9388cd2142b9a62691f4d533737b | |
| parent | checkpatch: validate SPDX license with spdxcheck.py (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-4cab63cea374c684eb0db352b40a09e3f7c45057.tar.xz linux-dev-4cab63cea374c684eb0db352b40a09e3f7c45057.zip | |
checkpatch: fix krealloc reuse test
The current krealloc test does not function correctly when the temporary
pointer return name contains the original pointer name.
Fix that by maximally matching the return pointer name and the original
pointer name and doing a separate comparison of the both names.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e617ecb8c019a9c4c56540a1bec16c8aed43a4e4.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Manish Narani <manish.narani@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4523dd6d0476..d43a446941ce 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6167,7 +6167,8 @@ sub process { # check for krealloc arg reuse if ($perl_version_ok && - $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*\1\s*,/) { + $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*($Lval)\s*,/ && + $1 eq $3) { WARN("KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE", "Reusing the krealloc arg is almost always a bug\n" . $herecurr); } |