Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND 1/1] checkpatch: add warning for pr_* and dev_* macros without a trailing newline

From: Charalampos Mitrodimas
Date: Fri Feb 07 2025 - 13:21:47 EST


Alban Kurti <kurti@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Add a new check in scripts/checkpatch.pl to detect usage of pr_(level)
> and dev_(level) macros (for both C and Rust) when the string literal
> does not end with '\n'. Missing trailing newlines can lead to incomplete
> log lines that do not appear properly in dmesg or in console output.
> To show an example of this working after applying the patch we can run
> the script on the commit that likely motivated this need/issue:
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -g f431c5c581fa176f608ba3fdebb3c1051bad5774
>
> Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1140
> Signed-off-by: Alban Kurti <kurti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog since v1:
> - Strip comments before matching to avoid false positives.
> - Refactored the macro patterns for clarity.
>
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 9eed3683ad76..3256b5f31835 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3888,6 +3888,52 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
>
> +# check for pr_* and dev_* logs without a newline for C and Rust files to avoid missing log messages
> + my $log_macro_pattern = qr{
> + \b
> + (
> + pr_(?:emerg|alert|crit|err|warn|notice|info|debug)
> + | dev_(?:emerg|alert|crit|err|warn|notice|info|dbg)
> + )
> + (!?)
> + \s*
> + \(
> + \s*
> + "([^"]*)"
> + }x;
> +
> + if ($realfile =~ /\.(?:c|h|rs)$/) {
> + if ($rawline =~ /^\+/) {
> + my $cleanline = $rawline;
> +
> + $cleanline =~ s/^[+\s]+//;
> + $cleanline =~ s/\r?$//;
> +
> + $cleanline =~ s{/\*.*?\*/}{}g;
> + $cleanline =~ s{//.*}{}g;
> +
> + if ($cleanline =~ /$log_macro_pattern/) {
> + my $macro_call = $1;
> + my $maybe_excl = $2;
> + my $string_arg = $3;
> +
> + $string_arg =~ s/\s+$//;
> + if ($realfile =~ /\.rs$/ && $maybe_excl ne '!') {
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + if ($string_arg !~ /\\n$/ && $string_arg !~ /\n$/) {
> + my $lang = ($realfile =~ /\.rs$/) ? "Rust" : "C";
> + WARN("${lang}_LOG_NO_NEWLINE",
> + "Usage of $macro_call without a trailing newline. Consider adding '\\n'.\n" .
> + $herecurr);
> + }
> + }
> + }
> + }
> +
> +
> # check for .L prefix local symbols in .S files
> if ($realfile =~ /\.S$/ &&
> $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:[A-Z]+_)?SYM_[A-Z]+_(?:START|END)(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(\s*\.L/) {

I couldn't apply this to my tree (with rust-next base), but manually
adding the changes to scripts/checkpatch.pl works as expected.

Alban, can you try resetting your tree to rust-next and apply this
patch? I believe (not sure) there are some indentation issues with the
code.

C. Mitrodimas