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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	apw@canonical.com, dwaipayanray1@gmail.com,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite loop in checkpatch.pl
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:52:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1be073e8e53da8dcdd9e37ffc6e60d1375c59bb.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=WZnBtRujLyhouz1AmerSKB71oPej442JDOw2OaORbWQg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 15:28 +0100, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've noticed that checkpatch.pl chokes on the following file (also attached):
> 
> ==================================
> $ cat test-checkpatch.txt
> diff --git a/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c b/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
> @@ -504,6 +504,25 @@ static void
> test_memcpy_aligned_to_unaligned2(struct kunit *test)
> + EXPECTATION_NO_REPORT(expect);                              \
> + volatile uint##size##_t uninit;                             \

checkpatch isn't a syntax complete c parser.  Don't expect to be.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-03 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-03 14:28 Alexander Potapenko
2023-03-03 16:52 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2023-03-03 20:53   ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-03-06  0:05     ` Joe Perches

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