From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for kcalloc argument order
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:24:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359228273.2079.31.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
kcalloc is sometimes misused with the
first and second arguments switched.
Same issue with kmalloc_array too.
Bleat if sizeof is the first argument
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9cec6dd..b7326af 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3476,6 +3476,12 @@ sub process {
"unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for alloc argument mismatch
+ if ($line =~ /\b(kcalloc|kmalloc_array)\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) {
+ WARN("ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS",
+ "$1 uses number as first arg, sizeof is generally wrong\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for multiple semicolons
if ($line =~ /;\s*;\s*$/) {
WARN("ONE_SEMICOLON",
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