Re: Checkpatch false positive?

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Tue 27-01-09 18:06:01, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> >   I've used checkpatch.pl to verify one of my patches. It complains:
> > 
> > ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
> > #167: FILE: fs/quota/quota_tree.c:249:
> > +       for (i = 0, ddquot = buf + sizeof(struct qt_disk_dqdbheader);
> > [...]
> >              i++, ddquot += info->dqi_entry_size);
> > 
> >   But the code looks like:
> >         for (i = 0, ddquot = buf + sizeof(struct qt_disk_dqdbheader);
> >              i < qtree_dqstr_in_blk(info) && !qtree_entry_unused(info, ddquot);
> >              i++, ddquot += info->dqi_entry_size);
> > 
> >   Which is IMHO correct. Maybe it's because the for has actually empty body
> > and the ; is at the end of the line with for. But I didn't find anything in
> > CodingStyle that would forbid
> > 	for (...);
> > and
> > 	for (...)
> > 		;
> > Looks a bit strange.
> 
> for (...); is a common C programming error, usually it's some kind of:
> 
> 	for(........);
> 		do_something();
> 
> This code does something different than intended.
> And yes, we had such bugs in the kernel.
> 
> 
> 	for(........)
> 		;
> 
> is correct. The "looks a bit strange" is what actually tells readers 
> what the code is doing (and that the author did it intentionally).
  OK, makes some sence. Thanks for explanation.

									Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR