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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-08-06 16:10:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:27 -0700
commit032a4c0f9a77ce565355c6e191553e853ba66f09 (patch)
tree472cf85c05fdcafe028e5b8140729327afcffeea /scripts
parentebfdc40969f24fc0cdd1349835d36e8ebae05374 (diff)
checkpatch: warn on unnecessary else after return or break
Using an else following a break or return can unnecessarily indent code blocks. ie: for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { int foo = bar(); if (foo < 1) break; else usleep(1); } is generally better written as: for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { int foo = bar(); if (foo < 1) break; usleep(1); } Warn when a bare else statement is preceded by a break or return indented 1 tab more than the else. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ac1d6b0a6f09..d833b737a295 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2342,6 +2342,16 @@ sub process {
# check we are in a valid C source file if not then ignore this hunk
next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c)$/);
+# check indentation of any line with a bare else
+# if the previous line is a break or return and is indented 1 tab more...
+ if ($sline =~ /^\+([\t]+)(?:}[ \t]*)?else(?:[ \t]*{)?\s*$/) {
+ my $tabs = length($1) + 1;
+ if ($prevline =~ /^\+\t{$tabs,$tabs}(?:break|return)\b/) {
+ WARN("UNNECESSARY_ELSE",
+ "else is not generally useful after a break or return\n" . $hereprev);
+ }
+ }
+
# discourage the addition of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in #if(def).
if ($line =~ /^\+\s*\#\s*if.*\bCONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL\b/) {
WARN("CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL",