Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add *_ON_STACK to $declaration_macros

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 10:55 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Add the crypto API *_ON_STACK to $declaration_macros.
>>
>> Resolves the following false warning:
>>
>> WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
>> +                     int err;
>> +                     SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(desc, ctx_p->shash_tfm);
> []
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
>> @@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant|$String)};
>>  our $declaration_macros = qr{(?x:
>>       (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]*_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-9]+){1,6}\s*\(|
>>       (?:$Storage\s+)?LIST_HEAD\s*\(|
>> +     (?:$Storage\s+)?[A-Z_]*_ON_STACK\(|
>
> A few things:
>
> The crypto _ON_STACK declarations cannot have a $Storage type.
>
> There should be a \s* between the ON_STACK and the open parenthesis
>
> There are other _ON_STACK types than the crypto uses
>
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh "\b[A-Z_]+_ON_STACK\b" * | \
>   sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
>      68 SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK
>      45 SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK
>      10 AHASH_REQUEST_ON_STACK
>       4 PC_LOC_ON_STACK
>       4 DECLARE_DPM_WATCHDOG_ON_STACK
>       3 HISI_SAS_DECLARE_RST_WORK_ON_STACK
>       3 CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
>       1 PT_SIZE_ON_STACK
>       1 ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK
>
> So perhaps:
>
>         (?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(
>


Yes, it's better.

I'll send a v2.

Thanks,
Gilad

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