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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2012-07-30 14:41:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-30 17:25:17 -0700
commit66c80b6077256898df948ac6acf547b47ddb1fcf (patch)
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parent4a273195a551a27a9a3ebed072c8df16c853da7f (diff)
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checkpatch: Add acheck for use of sizeof without parenthesis
Kernel style uses parenthesis around sizeof. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4bad5700670a..40b0627aeb5e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3265,6 +3265,12 @@ sub process {
"sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for sizeof without parenthesis
+ if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s+((?:\*\s*|)$Lval|$Type(?:\s+$Lval|))/) {
+ WARN("SIZEOF_PARENTHESIS",
+ "sizeof $1 should be sizeof($1)\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of "
if ($rawline =~ /\\$/ && $rawline =~ tr/"/"/ % 2) {
WARN("LINE_CONTINUATIONS",