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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2018-08-21 21:57:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 10:52:48 -0700
commitd729593e492e1e4c7cd8a418ee227d0bd4d5f36d (patch)
tree364ee3dd079163719b1e75a0914517ecfc83cbc2 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentde9df3993cfffde468c1c226382f24cec7e9fedc (diff)
checkpatch: add a --strict test for structs with bool member definitions
A struct with a bool member can have different sizes on various architectures because neither bool size nor alignment is standardized. So emit a message on the use of bool in structs only in .h files and not .c files. There is the real possibility that this test could have a false positive when a bool is declared as an automatic, so limit the test to .h files where the only false positive is for declarations in static inline functions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/95477c93db187bab6da8a8ba7c57836868446179.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 447857ffaf6b..5cb7cfd08ce2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6251,6 +6251,13 @@ sub process {
"Avoid using bool as bitfield. Prefer bool bitfields as unsigned int or u<8|16|32>\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for bool use in .h files
+ if ($realfile =~ /\.h$/ &&
+ $sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s*$Ident\s*(?::\s*d+\s*)?;/) {
+ CHK("BOOL_MEMBER",
+ "Avoid using bool structure members because of possible alignment issues - see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for semaphores initialized locked
if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) {
WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION",