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From: "L. Alberto Giménez" <agimenez@sysvalve.es>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for harmful goto labels
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:16:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426972574-12199-1-git-send-email-agimenez@sysvalve.es> (raw)

Issue a warning for too broad goto labels that may make the code to
follow the wrong exit path, thus causing hard to debug bugs.

Signed-off-by: L. Alberto Giménez <agimenez@sysvalve.es>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d124359..e8ce220 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -444,6 +444,11 @@ our $allowed_asm_includes = qr{(?x:
 )};
 # memory.h: ARM has a custom one
 
+our @goto_harmful_labels = qw(
+	out
+	fail
+	);
+
 # Load common spelling mistakes and build regular expression list.
 my $misspellings;
 my %spelling_fix;
@@ -2702,6 +2707,14 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+		if ($sline =~ /goto (.*);/) {
+			my $label = $1;
+			if (grep { /^$label$/ } @goto_harmful_labels) {
+				WARN("HARMFUL_GOTO_LABEL",
+					"Goto label '$label' is considered harmful\n" . $herecurr);
+			}
+		}
+
 # discourage the addition of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL in #if(def).
 		if ($line =~ /^\+\s*\#\s*if.*\bCONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL\b/) {
 			WARN("CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL",
-- 
2.1.4


             reply	other threads:[~2015-03-21 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-21 21:16 L. Alberto Giménez [this message]
2015-03-21 21:40 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-03-21 22:06   ` L. Alberto Giménez
2015-03-21 22:12     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-03-22  2:56       ` Joe Perches
2015-03-22 12:16         ` L. Alberto Giménez
2015-03-21 21:41 ` Peter Hurley
2015-03-21 22:09   ` L. Alberto Giménez

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