Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Fix typo in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID macro

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 12:33 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:57:30AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h
[]
> > > -#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID		(1ULL << MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID_BIT);
> > > +#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID		(1ULL << MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_LIMIT_CPUID_BIT)
> 
> Btw, we should probably be catching typos like that with checkpatch.
> Here's an initial version for single-line macros:
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3313,6 +3313,11 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s.*;\s*$/) {
> +			WARN("TRAILING_SEMICOLON",
> +			     "Trailing semicolon at macro definition\n" . $herecurr);
> +		}
> +

Seems sensible.

I suggest moving the test next to the other macro
definition tests for things like unnecessary semicolon
around "do {... while (0)" around line 3800.

Extending the test to find multiline forms like

#define	foo	\
	bar;

would also be trivially done there.

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