Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: add ethtool_sprintf rules

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Oct 26 2023 - 13:30:30 EST


On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 23:40 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> Add some warnings for using ethtool_sprintf() where a simple
> ethtool_puts() would suffice.

Hi again Justin.

After I read patch 1/3 I don't object at all.

spatch/cocci will always be a better option than checkpatch
for conversions like this because it's a proper grammar parser
and checkpatch is a stupid little perl script.

If you resubmit this please:


> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -7020,6 +7020,19 @@ sub process {
> "Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n"; . $herecurr);
> }
>
> +# ethtool_sprintf uses that should likely be ethtool_puts
> + if ( $line =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/ ) {
> + WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF",
> + "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with only two arguments" . $herecurr);
> + }
> +
> + # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus we can't match against it.
> + if ( $rawline =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/ ) {
> + WARN("ETHTOOL_SPRINTF2",
> + "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with standalone \"%s\" specifier" . $herecurr);
> + }

o remove the whitespace before and after the parentheses
o use the same type "ETHTOOL_SPRINTF" or maybe "PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS"
for both warnings.
o Add a newline on the message output
o Add a --fix option

Something like:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 25fdb7fda1128..6924731110d87 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7011,6 +7011,25 @@ sub process {
"Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n"; . $herecurr);
}

+# ethtool_sprintf uses that should likely be ethtool_puts
+ if ($line =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+ "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with only two arguments\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1, $7)/;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus we can't match against it.
+ if ($rawline =~ /\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+ if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+ "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with standalone \"%s\" specifier\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*"\%s"\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1, $7)/;
+ }
+ }
+
+
# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
if ($perl_version_ok &&
defined $stat &&