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| author | Song Liu | 2021-02-25 17:22:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2021-02-26 09:41:04 -0800 |
| commit | 5b8f82e1a17695c9e5fec5842b234967782d7e5b (patch) | |
| tree | 7ef5c6657edb5ad54f7a3172b98956da6f611546 /scripts | |
| parent | 263afd39c06f5939ef943e0d535380d4b8e56484 (diff) | |
checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs
BPF programs explicitly initialise global variables to 0 to make sure
clang (v10 or older) do not put the variables in the common section. Skip
"initialise globals to 0" check for BPF programs to elimiate error
messages like:
ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0
#19: FILE: samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c:21:
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209211954.490077-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 75c93316547b..df8b23dc1eb0 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2453,6 +2453,15 @@ sub get_raw_comment { return $comment; } +sub exclude_global_initialisers { + my ($realfile) = @_; + + # Do not check for BPF programs (tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/*.c, samples/bpf/*_kern.c, *.bpf.c). + return $realfile =~ m@^tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/.*\.c$@ || + $realfile =~ m@^samples/bpf/.*_kern\.c$@ || + $realfile =~ m@/bpf/.*\.bpf\.c$@; +} + sub process { my $filename = shift; @@ -4358,7 +4367,8 @@ sub process { } # check for global initialisers. - if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/) { + if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/ && + !exclude_global_initialisers($realfile)) { if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS", "do not initialise globals to $1\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { |