Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: add MA_STATE to declaration_macros

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Nov 08 2025 - 19:52:46 EST


On Sat, 2025-11-08 at 16:47 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> MA_STATE is used repeatedly as a declaration, add it to the list.

OK but

> I left out the $Storage regex component, since I saw no cases wanting
> it, via: $> grep -r -B1 '\bMA_STATE' .
>
> This change fixes the following, reproduced locally.

No following ?

And I looked at the MA_STATE macro definition that has
several NULL or zero unnecessary member initializations
but doesn't initialize the entire structure as all
non-named members are NULL or zero by default.

I wonder if the unnecessary NULL/0 initializations there
could actually increase the object size.

With gcc 15.2.1 allyesconfig & defconfig do not change
either way but I don't know if all supported versions
minimize the initialization properly.

> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511071306.OJpTf7fK-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

This Closes: url is not found on lore

>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index e722dd6fa8ef..4b5e2e64dece 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1096,7 +1096,8 @@ our $declaration_macros = qr{(?x:
> (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]*_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-9]+){1,6}\s*\(|
> (?:$Storage\s+)?[HLP]?LIST_HEAD\s*\(|
> (?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(|
> - (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(
> + (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(|
> + (?:MA_STATE)\s*\(
> )};
>
> our %allow_repeated_words = (