Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] kref: Add kref_read()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:

> >Improve tooling. The patterns shouldn't be _that_ hard to find. Once the tools are good, new code isn't a problem either.
> 
> Moreover, thinking of out of tree drivers: you think they would always
> do checkpatch or run some of our tools for security checks?

Also, checkpatch is a horrid example. That's mostly meaningless and
menial noise. Nobody wants to run that, even if, between all the
gibberish it lists a few sensible things.

Make an always enabled GCC plugin that generates build warns with a low
enough false positive rate and nobody will complain.