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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2016-12-12 16:46:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 18:55:10 -0800 |
| commit | 11ca40a0f8e3a788a987f14cb80d836a34d109ae (patch) | |
| tree | 35f5ea2300b4c11326d566f00b61484deb3c361e /scripts | |
| parent | d6430f71805aa98d6e8fbc67e605922aefcf9ceb (diff) | |
checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
Code that puts a single dereferencing identifier on multiple lines like:
struct_identifier->member[index].
member = <foo>;
is generally hard to follow.
Prefer that dereferencing identifiers be single line.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c191ae3f41bedc8ffd5c0fbcc5a1cec1d1d2df.1478120869.git.joe@perches.com
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')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 0c20f035ed99..cf95d3ae0754 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3440,6 +3440,18 @@ sub process { #ignore lines not being added next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/); +# check for dereferences that span multiple lines + if ($prevline =~ /^\+.*$Lval\s*(?:\.|->)\s*$/ && + $line =~ /^\+\s*(?!\#\s*(?!define\s+|if))\s*$Lval/) { + $prevline =~ /($Lval\s*(?:\.|->))\s*$/; + my $ref = $1; + $line =~ /^.\s*($Lval)/; + $ref .= $1; + $ref =~ s/\s//g; + WARN("MULTILINE_DEREFERENCE", + "Avoid multiple line dereference - prefer '$ref'\n" . $hereprev); + } + # check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int while ($line =~ m{\b($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) { my $type = $1; |