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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@spawn.link>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: extend BUG warning
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:00:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475686858.6105.7.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy2Kwud6N315zEK=0Jrh4GXc+ALZdqRONgOGcuy9feH9w@mail.gmail.com>

Include the prefixed and postfixed BUG/BUG_ON variants like VM_BUG_ON
that can kill the kernel.  Exclude the BUILD and lower case variants.

$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh "\w+_BUG_ON\w*" * | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
   1838 BUILD_BUG_ON
    632 snd_BUG_ON
    263 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE
    260 VM_BUG_ON
     97 GEM_BUG_ON
     57 SNIC_BUG_ON
     49 EFX_BUG_ON_PARANOID
     45 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO
     45 BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG
     30 B43legacy_BUG_ON
     24 VM_BUG_ON_VMA
     21 BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2
     16 PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON
     15 GLOCK_BUG_ON
     12 LOGFS_BUG_ON
     11 RWLOCK_BUG_ON
     10 VIRTUAL_BUG_ON
      9 SPIN_BUG_ON
      9 BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
      8 UNWINDER_BUG_ON
      8 DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON
      7 VM_BUG_ON_MM
      7 LIST_BL_BUG_ON
      6 BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL
      5 MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON
      4 VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS
      4 SSB_BUG_ON
      4 HAVE_ARCH_BUG_ON
      4 BIO_BUG_ON
      3 DCCP_BUG_ON
      3 __BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2
      2 __BUG_ON_cond
      2 __BUG_ON
      1 CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3373c65fef1c..be796704e218 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3725,8 +3725,9 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-# avoid BUG() or BUG_ON()
-		if ($line =~ /\b(?:BUG|BUG_ON)\b/) {
+# avoid BUG() or BUG_ON() like mechanisms (exclude BUILD_BUG)
+		if ($line =~ /\b((?:[A-Z_]+_)?BUG(?:_ON(?:_[A-Z_]+)?))\s*\(/ &&
+		    $1 !~ /BUILD/) {
 			my $msg_type = \&WARN;
 			$msg_type = \&CHK if ($file);
 			&{$msg_type}("AVOID_BUG",

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-05 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04  4:00 BUG_ON() in workingset_node_shadows_dec() triggers Linus Torvalds
2016-10-04  4:07 ` Andrew Morton
2016-10-04  4:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-04  7:03     ` Raymond Jennings
2016-10-04 16:03       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-04  8:02 ` Greg KH
2016-10-04  9:32 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-10-05  1:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05  9:25     ` Johannes Weiner
2016-10-05  9:31       ` Johannes Weiner
2016-10-05 10:40       ` Jan Kara
2016-10-05 16:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 17:00         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-10-05 17:07           ` [PATCH] checkpatch: extend BUG warning Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05  2:43 ` BUG_ON() in workingset_node_shadows_dec() triggers Paul Gortmaker
2016-10-05  3:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05  5:44     ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-05 15:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 19:06         ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-05 19:18           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 21:09             ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-05 21:14             ` Kees Cook
2016-10-05 21:46               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-05 22:17                 ` Kees Cook
2016-10-05 22:29                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-06 22:07                     ` Kees Cook
2016-10-06 22:29                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-06 23:05                         ` Kees Cook
2016-10-06 23:59                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07  5:48                             ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-07 17:16                               ` Kees Cook
2016-10-07 17:21                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 17:33                                   ` Kees Cook
2016-10-07 18:26                                     ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-06  1:59     ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-06  2:12       ` Linus Torvalds

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