Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed Trivial Warnings in file: Deleted Spaces prior to tabs, and added lines. modified: kernel/auditfilter.c

[Scott Matheina]

On 10/21/2015 10:33 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/10/21, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 12:10 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>>> On 15/10/18, Scott Matheina wrote:
>>>> On 10/14/2015 04:54 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, October 10, 2015 08:57:55 PM Scott Matheina wrote:
>> []
>>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
>> []
>>>>>> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ void audit_free_rule_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
>>>>>>  {
>>>>>>  	struct audit_entry *e = container_of(head, struct audit_entry, rcu);
>>>>>>  	audit_free_rule(e);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>  }
>>>>> Why?
>>>> I was following the error messages in checkpatch.pl, but the warning
>>>> went away after adding this line. No problem with the code. 
>>> That sounds like a bug in checkpatch.pl, since that blank line should be
>>> tween the declaration and the function call.
>> checkpatch message asks for a blank line after the
>> "struct audit_entry *e = ..." declaration.
> Well then maybe it is a bug in his interpretation of the output of
> checkpatch.pl?  Scott, did you re-run checkpatch.pl after adding those
> spaces?  Did it pass?

The error did go away. 

>>>>>>  	while (*list != ~0U) {
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>  		unsigned n = *list++;
>>>>>>  		if (n >= AUDIT_BITMASK_SIZE * 32 - AUDIT_SYSCALL_CLASSES) {
>>>>>>  			kfree(p);
>>>>> Why?
>>>> This is the same as above. Just going through the checkpatch.pl
>>>> script, and looking for warnings to fix. 
>>> Again, another manifestation of that bug?  That blank line should be
>>> after the declaration and before the if statement.
>> []
>>> Well, I agree, you have to start somewhere...  Too bad you hit a bug in
>>> checkpatch.pl!
>> Here too, not a bug in checkpatch.
>>
>> checkpatch output asks for a blank line after the
>> "unsigned n" declaration, not before.
> - RGB
>
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