From: Joe Perches Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 23:38:49 +0000 (-0800) Subject: checkpatch: ignore some octal permissions of 0 X-Git-Tag: v4.16-rc1~49^2~66 X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73121534c963f7b6d22547a9ad8bff1793748433;p=uclinux-h8%2Flinux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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); }