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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-02-06 15:38:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-02-06 18:32:45 -0800 |
| commit | 73121534c963f7b6d22547a9ad8bff1793748433 (patch) | |
| tree | 5309ec04ed1ada851c738a010b0244073defe113 /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | 2e4bbbc550be336cbb3defc67430fc0700aa1426 (diff) | |
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checkpatch: ignore some octal permissions of 0
module_param and create_proc uses with a permissions use of a single 0 are
"special" and should not emit any warning.
module_param uses with permission 0 are not visible in sysfs
create_proc uses with permission 0 use a default permission
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6583611bb529ea6f6d43786827fddbabbab0a71.1513190059.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
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-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4306b7616cdd..168687ae24fa 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6276,6 +6276,10 @@ sub process { # Mode permission misuses where it seems decimal should be octal # This uses a shortcut match to avoid unnecessary uses of a slow foreach loop +# o Ignore module_param*(...) uses with a decimal 0 permission as that has a +# specific definition of not visible in sysfs. +# o Ignore proc_create*(...) uses with a decimal 0 permission as that means +# use the default permissions if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && defined $stat && $line =~ /$mode_perms_search/) { @@ -6299,8 +6303,9 @@ sub process { if ($stat =~ /$test/) { my $val = $1; $val = $6 if ($skip_args ne ""); - if (($val =~ /^$Int$/ && $val !~ /^$Octal$/) || - ($val =~ /^$Octal$/ && length($val) ne 4)) { + if (!($func =~ /^(?:module_param|proc_create)/ && $val eq "0") && + (($val =~ /^$Int$/ && $val !~ /^$Octal$/) || + ($val =~ /^$Octal$/ && length($val) ne 4))) { ERROR("NON_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS", "Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions\n" . "$here\n" . $stat_real); } |