[PATCH v9 15/27] scripts: checkpatch: diagnose uses of `%pA` in the C side as errors
From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-08-05 15:46:09
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, linux-patches, lkml
Subsystem:
checkpatch, the rest · Maintainers:
Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Linus Torvalds
The `%pA` format specifier is only intended to be used from Rust.
`checkpatch.pl` already gives a warning for invalid specificers:
WARNING: Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '%pA'
This makes it an error and introduces an explanatory message:
ERROR: Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '%pA' - '%pA' is only intended to be used from Rust code
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 503e8abbb2c1..23799e8013b3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl@@ -6782,15 +6782,19 @@ sub process { } if ($bad_specifier ne "") { my $stat_real = get_stat_real($linenr, $lc); + my $msg_level = \&WARN; my $ext_type = "Invalid"; my $use = ""; if ($bad_specifier =~ /p[Ff]/) { $use = " - use %pS instead"; $use =~ s/pS/ps/ if ($bad_specifier =~ /pf/); + } elsif ($bad_specifier =~ /pA/) { + $use = " - '%pA' is only intended to be used from Rust code"; + $msg_level = \&ERROR; } - WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION", - "$ext_type vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_specifier'$use\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n"); + &{$msg_level}("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION", + "$ext_type vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_specifier'$use\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n"); } } }
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