Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kconfig: warn of unhandled characters in Kconfig commands

From: Ulf Magnusson
Date: Wed Jul 08 2015 - 16:14:43 EST


On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Andreas Ruprecht
<andreas.ruprecht@xxxxxx> wrote:
> In Kconfig, definitions of options take the following form:
> "<COMMAND> <PARAM> <PARAM> ...". COMMANDs and PARAMs are treated
> slightly different by the underlying parser.
>
> While commit 2e0d737fc76f ("kconfig: don't silently ignore unhandled
> characters") introduced a warning for unsupported characters around
> PARAMs, it does not cover situations where a COMMAND has additional
> characters around it.
>
> This change makes Kconfig emit a warning if superfluous characters
> are found around COMMANDs. As the 'help' statement sometimes is
> written as '---help---', the '-' character would now also be regarded
> as unhandled and generate a warning. To avoid that, '-' is added to
> the list of allowed characters, and the token '---help---' is included
> in the zconf.gperf file.
>
> Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Ruprecht <andreas.ruprecht@xxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.gperf | 1 +
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 18 ++++++++++++------
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.gperf b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.gperf
> index b6ac02d..7aceb7b 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.gperf
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.gperf
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ comment, T_COMMENT, TF_COMMAND
> config, T_CONFIG, TF_COMMAND
> menuconfig, T_MENUCONFIG, TF_COMMAND
> help, T_HELP, TF_COMMAND
> +"---help---", T_HELP, TF_COMMAND
> if, T_IF, TF_COMMAND|TF_PARAM
> endif, T_ENDIF, TF_COMMAND
> depends, T_DEPENDS, TF_COMMAND
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l
> index 200a3fe..3078244 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l
> @@ -66,9 +66,16 @@ static void alloc_string(const char *str, int size)
> memcpy(text, str, size);
> text[size] = 0;
> }
> +
> +static void warn_ignored_character(const char chr)
> +{
> + fprintf(stderr,
> + "%s:%d:warning: ignoring unsupported character '%c'\n",
> + zconf_curname(), zconf_lineno(), chr);
> +}

Was the 'const' on the non-pointer 'chr' parameter intended here?

> %}
>
> -n [A-Za-z0-9_]
> +n [A-Za-z0-9_-]
>
> %%
> int str = 0;
> @@ -106,7 +113,9 @@ n [A-Za-z0-9_]
> zconflval.string = text;
> return T_WORD;
> }
> - .
> + . {
> + warn_ignored_character(*yytext);
> + }
> \n {
> BEGIN(INITIAL);
> current_file->lineno++;
> @@ -132,7 +141,6 @@ n [A-Za-z0-9_]
> BEGIN(STRING);
> }
> \n BEGIN(INITIAL); current_file->lineno++; return T_EOL;
> - --- /* ignore */
> ({n}|[-/.])+ {

Removing '-' from [-/.] too works fine on my system (Flex 2.5.39, Bison 3.0.2,
as shipped with Ubuntu 15.04). What problems did you run into?

> const struct kconf_id *id = kconf_id_lookup(yytext, yyleng);
> if (id && id->flags & TF_PARAM) {
> @@ -147,9 +155,7 @@ n [A-Za-z0-9_]
> \\\n current_file->lineno++;
> [[:blank:]]+
> . {
> - fprintf(stderr,
> - "%s:%d:warning: ignoring unsupported character '%c'\n",
> - zconf_curname(), zconf_lineno(), *yytext);
> + warn_ignored_character(*yytext);
> }
> <<EOF>> {
> BEGIN(INITIAL);
> --
> 1.9.1
>

Cheers,
Ulf
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