linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch v5.3

checkpatch.pl: warn on duplicate sysctl local variable

2019-07-17T02:23:22Z

Commit d91bff3011cf ("proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check") adds some shared const variables to be used instead of a local copy in each source file. Warn when a chunk duplicates one of these values in a ctl_table struct: $ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-test-commit.patch WARNING: duplicated sysctl range checking value 'zero', consider using the shared one in include/linux/sysctl.h #27: FILE: arch/arm/kernel/isa.c:48: + .extra1 = &zero, WARNING: duplicated sysctl range checking value 'int_max', consider using the shared one in include/linux/sysctl.h #28: FILE: arch/arm/kernel/isa.c:49: + .extra2 = &int_max, total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 14 lines checked Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531131422.14970-1-mcroce@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs: timers: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

2019-06-14T20:31:48Z

The conversion here is really trivial: just a bunch of title markups and very few puntual changes is enough to make it to be parsed by Sphinx and generate a nice html. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

checkpatch.pl: Update DT vendor prefix check

2019-05-22T19:54:49Z

In commit 8122de54602e ("dt-bindings: Convert vendor prefixes to json-schema"), vendor-prefixes.txt has been converted to a DT schema. Update the checkpatch.pl DT check to extract vendor prefixes from the new vendor-prefixes.yaml file. Fixes: 8122de54602e ("dt-bindings: Convert vendor prefixes to json-schema") Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Rob Herring

Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-05-08T19:42:50Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph - Various build-script fixes - A new document on memory models - RST conversion of the live-patching docs - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits) docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo` scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs docs/vm: add documentation of memory models doc:it_IT: translation alignment doc: fix typo in PGP guide dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings ...

checkpatch: add %pt as a valid vsprintf extension

2019-03-29T17:01:37Z

Commit 4d42c44727a0 ("lib/vsprintf: Print time and date in human readable format via %pt") introduced a new extension, %pt. Add it in the list of valid extensions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190314203719.29130-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: Warn on improper usage of Co-developed-by

2019-03-25T16:44:43Z

The purpose of Co-developed-by: is to give attribution to authors who aren't already attributed by the From: tag, i.e. who aren't the nominal patch author. Because Co-developed-by: is essentially a variation of From:, it must be accompanied by a Signed-off-by: of the associated co-author. To ease the burden of determining whether or not co-authors have signed off, Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by: must be explicitly paired, i.e. on consecutive lines for a given co-author. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-03-09T17:56:17Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas" * tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...

checkpatch: add test for SPDX-License-Identifier on wrong line #

2019-03-08T02:32:01Z

Warn when any SPDX-License-Identifier: tag is not created on the proper line number. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b74ee87f8c1b8fd310e213fcb4994d58610fcb6.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: allow reporting C99 style comments

2019-03-08T02:32:01Z

Presently C99 style comments are removed unconditionally before actual patch validity check happens. This is a problem for some third party projects which use checkpatch.pl but do not allow C99 style comments. This patch adds yet another variable, named C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE. If it is included in the --ignore command line or config file options list, C99 comments in the patch are reported as errors. Tested by processing a patch with a C99 style comment, it passes the check just fine unless '--ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE' is present in .checkpatch.conf. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110224957.25008-1-vbendeb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: add some new alloc functions to various tests

2019-03-08T02:32:01Z

Many new generic allocation functions like the kvmalloc family have been added recently to the kernel. The allocation functions test now includes: o kvmalloc and variants o kstrdup_const o kmemdup_nul o dma_alloc_coherent o alloc_skb and variants Add a separate $allocFunctions variable to help make the allocation functions test a bit more readable. Miscellanea: o Use $allocFunctions in the unnecessary OOM message test and add exclude uses with __GFP_NOWARN o Use $allocFunctions in the unnecessary cast test o Add the kvmalloc family to the preferred sizeof alloc style foo = kvmalloc(sizeof(*foo), ...) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5e60a2b93e10baf84af063f6c8e56402273105d.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds