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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 954f4914c4af..a81fc66e62cc 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5165,6 +5165,29 @@ sub process {
"Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n")
}
+# check for memset(foo, 0x0, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_zero_addr
+# check for memset(foo, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_broadcast_addr
+ if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+ defined $stat &&
+ $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
+
+ my $ms_val = $7;
+
+ if ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0x|)0+$/i) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_ZERO_ADDR",
+ "Prefer eth_zero_addr over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_zero_addr($2)/;
+ }
+ } elsif ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0xff|255)$/i) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_BROADCAST_ADDR",
+ "Prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_broadcast_addr($2)/;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
defined $stat &&