Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references
From: Michal Nazarewicz
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 17:29:13 EST
On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:19:17 +0200, John Stultz wrote:
Now that accessing current->comm needs to be protected,
@@ -2868,6 +2868,10 @@ sub process {
WARN("usage of NR_CPUS is often wrong - consider using
cpu_possible(), num_possible_cpus(), for_each_possible_cpu(), etc\n" .
$herecurr);
}
+# check for current->comm usage
+ if ($line =~ /\b(?:current|task|tsk|t)\s*->\s*comm\b/) {
Not a checkpatch.pl expert but as far as I'm concerned, that looks
reasonable.
I was sort of worried that t->comm could produce quite a few false
positives
but all its appearances in the kernel (seem to) refer to task.
+ WARN("comm access needs to be protected. Use get_task_comm, or
printk's \%ptc formatting.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
# check for %L{u,d,i} in strings
my $string;
while ($line =~ /(?:^|")([X\t]*)(?:"|$)/g) {
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