checkpatch: dissallow spaces between stars in pointer types
Disallow spaces within multiple pointer stars (*) in both casts and
definitions. Both of these would now be reported:
(char * *)
char * *foo;
Also now consistently detects and reports the attributes within these
structures making the error report itself clearer.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 45a97c9..8507836 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
}x;
$Type = qr{
$NonptrType
- (?:\s*\*+\s*const|\s*\*+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
+ (?:[\s\*]+\s*const|[\s\*]+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
(?:\s+$Inline|\s+$Modifier)*
}x;
$Declare = qr{(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type};
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@
}
# any (foo ... *) is a pointer cast, and foo is a type
- while ($s =~ /\(($Ident)(?:\s+$Sparse)*\s*\*+\s*\)/sg) {
+ while ($s =~ /\(($Ident)(?:\s+$Sparse)*[\s\*]+\s*\)/sg) {
possible($1, "C:" . $s);
}
@@ -1618,21 +1618,39 @@
}
# * goes on variable not on type
- if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+const)?\)}) {
- ERROR("\"(foo$1)\" should be \"(foo $1)\"\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ # (char*[ const])
+ if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+ my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+const)\s+\)}) {
- ERROR("\"(foo $1 )\" should be \"(foo $1)\"\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ # Should start with a space.
+ $to =~ s/^(\S)/ $1/;
+ # Should not end with a space.
+ $to =~ s/\s+$//;
+ # '*'s should not have spaces between.
+ while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+ }
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))?\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
- ERROR("\"foo$1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ #print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
+ if ($from ne $to) {
+ ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+ my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
- ERROR("\"foo $1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ # Should start with a space.
+ $to =~ s/^(\S)/ $1/;
+ # Should not end with a space.
+ $to =~ s/\s+$//;
+ # '*'s should not have spaces between.
+ while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+ }
+ # Modifiers should have spaces.
+ $to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /;
+
+ #print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
+ if ($from ne $to) {
+ ERROR("\"foo${from}bar\" should be \"foo${to}bar\"\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
}
# # no BUG() or BUG_ON()