linux/scripts
Joe Perches 8716de383b checkpatch: add test for positional misuse of section specifiers like __initdata
As discussed recently on the arm [1] and lm-sensors [2] lists, it is
possible to use section markers on variables in a way which gcc doesn't
understand (or at least not the way the developer intended):

static struct __initdata samsung_pll_clock exynos4_plls[nr_plls] = {

does NOT put exynos4_plls in the .initdata section.  The __initdata marker
can be virtually anywhere on the line, EXCEPT right after "struct".  The
preferred location is before the "=" sign if there is one, or before the
trailing ";" otherwise.

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/258149
[2] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2013-August/039836.html

So, update checkpatch to find these misuses and report an error when it's
immediately after struct or union, and a warning when it's otherwise not
immediately before the ; or =.

A similar patch was suggested by Andi Kleen
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/5/648

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:58:49 -07:00
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basic kbuild: fixdep: support concatenated dep files 2013-04-05 12:22:58 -06:00
coccinelle Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2013-09-07 19:47:35 -07:00
dtc dtc: ensure #line directives don't consume data from the next line 2013-06-13 22:12:15 +01:00
genksyms genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch 2013-03-20 11:27:27 +10:30
kconfig kconfig: do not allow more than one symbol to have 'option modules' 2013-09-05 11:10:08 +02:00
ksymoops
mod scripts/mod/modpost.c: permit '.cranges' secton for sh64 architecture. 2013-08-20 15:37:40 +09:30
package Provide version number for Debian firmware package 2013-08-15 18:01:18 +02:00
rt-tester Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
selinux Create Documentation/security/, 2011-05-19 15:59:38 -07:00
tracing tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
.gitignore X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler 2012-10-08 13:50:19 +10:30
asn1_compiler.c X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler 2012-10-08 13:50:19 +10:30
bin2c.c
bloat-o-meter bloat-o-meter: include read-only data section in report 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
bootgraph.pl bootgraph.pl: relax timing information requirements 2011-06-13 00:04:57 +02:00
checkincludes.pl checkincludes: fix perlcritic warnings 2010-03-07 21:19:57 +01:00
checkkconfigsymbols.sh scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh: replace echo -e with printf 2013-08-28 17:00:47 +02:00
checkpatch.pl checkpatch: add test for positional misuse of section specifiers like __initdata 2013-09-11 15:58:49 -07:00
checkstack.pl scripts/checkstack.pl: Add metag support 2013-03-02 20:09:55 +00:00
checksyscalls.sh checksyscalls: fix "here document" handling 2012-09-25 08:59:21 -07:00
checkversion.pl kbuild: don't warn about include/linux/version.h not including itself 2011-04-29 15:38:55 +02:00
cleanfile
cleanpatch
coccicheck Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required 2013-07-03 22:58:20 +02:00
config scripts/config: use sed's POSIX interface 2013-08-15 22:48:07 +02:00
conmakehash.c Fix all -Wmissing-prototypes warnings in x86 defconfig 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
decodecode scripts/decodecode: make faulting insn ptr more robust 2013-04-29 15:54:27 -07:00
depmod.sh depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX 2013-02-22 11:52:31 +01:00
diffconfig diffconfig: Update script to support python versions 2.5 through 3.3 2013-09-01 21:24:51 +02:00
docproc.c docproc: cleanup brace placement 2011-06-16 20:40:03 +02:00
export_report.pl export_report: use warn() to issue WARNING, so they go to stderr 2011-05-24 16:07:07 +02:00
extract-ikconfig scripts/extract-ikconfig: add xz compression support 2011-02-10 15:23:03 +01:00
extract-vmlinux scripts: add extract-vmlinux 2011-08-31 16:12:17 +02:00
gcc-goto.sh ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM 2012-03-24 09:38:56 +00:00
gcc-version.sh kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax 2012-10-03 09:03:24 +02:00
gcc-x86_32-has-stack-protector.sh kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax 2012-10-03 09:03:24 +02:00
gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax 2012-10-03 09:03:24 +02:00
gen_initramfs_list.sh Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2011-05-24 13:31:37 -07:00
get_maintainer.pl get_maintainer: use filename-only regex match for Tegra 2013-04-29 18:28:14 -07:00
gfp-translate chmod +x scripts/gfp-translate 2012-06-27 12:44:29 -07:00
headerdep.pl headerdep: perlcritic warning 2010-03-23 12:26:38 +01:00
headers_check.pl headers_check: recursively search for linux/types.h inclusion 2012-03-26 14:54:27 +02:00
headers_install.sh kbuild: fix make headers_install when path is too long 2013-05-17 22:10:35 +02:00
headers.sh kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly 2011-11-22 14:47:50 -08:00
kallsyms.c scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault 2011-05-12 17:23:40 +02:00
Kbuild.include kbuild: fix ld-option function 2013-04-08 11:47:41 +02:00
kernel-doc scripts/kernel-doc: handle struct member __aligned without numbers 2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
Lindent
link-vmlinux.sh CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup. 2013-03-15 15:09:43 +10:30
Makefile X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler 2012-10-08 13:50:19 +10:30
Makefile.asm-generic uapi: Allow automatic generation of uapi/asm/ header files 2012-10-17 12:25:44 +01:00
Makefile.build genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch 2013-03-20 11:27:27 +10:30
Makefile.clean kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h 2010-03-11 11:15:22 +01:00
Makefile.fwinst kbuild: Fix accidental revert in commit fe04ddf 2012-10-15 13:01:05 -07:00
Makefile.headersinst kbuild: fix make headers_install when path is too long 2013-05-17 22:10:35 +02:00
Makefile.help Add a target to use the Coccinelle checker 2010-06-12 00:00:29 +02:00
Makefile.host
Makefile.lib Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2013-07-10 16:05:40 -07:00
Makefile.modbuiltin kbuild: Create output directory in Makefile.modbuiltin 2010-06-10 12:23:08 +02:00
Makefile.modinst modules: don't break modules_install on external modules with no key. 2012-11-06 11:52:24 +10:30
Makefile.modpost modpost: handle huge numbers of modules. 2013-04-05 11:48:10 +10:30
Makefile.modsign MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target 2012-12-14 13:05:28 +10:30
makelst
markup_oops.pl Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
mkcompile_h Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name 2011-04-29 15:55:45 +02:00
mkmakefile kbuild: silence generated makefile message 2011-07-20 17:08:08 +02:00
mksysmap trivial: typo in comment in mksysmap 2012-07-20 10:36:05 +02:00
mkuboot.sh mkuboot.sh: Fail if mkimage is missing 2011-01-07 14:31:01 +01:00
mkversion
module-common.lds module: Sort exported symbols 2011-05-19 16:55:27 +09:30
namespace.pl Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions" 2010-10-28 00:59:56 +02:00
patch-kernel scripts/patch-kernel: digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches 2012-03-30 15:23:36 +02:00
pnmtologo.c scripts/pnmtologo: fix for plain PBM 2012-11-20 11:58:03 +01:00
profile2linkerlist.pl profile2linkerlist: fix perl warnings 2010-03-07 21:39:33 +01:00
recordmcount.c metag: ftrace support 2013-03-02 20:09:55 +00:00
recordmcount.h ftrace: Make recordmcount.c handle __fentry__ 2012-08-23 11:24:43 -04:00
recordmcount.pl tile: support ftrace on tilegx 2013-08-30 10:20:13 -04:00
setlocalversion scripts/setlocalversion on write-protected source tree 2013-06-24 00:08:01 +02:00
show_delta scripts: change scripts to use system python instead of env 2010-02-02 14:33:56 +01:00
sign-file MODSIGN: Add -s <signature> option to sign-file 2013-01-25 16:55:36 +10:30
sortextable.c scripts: remove unused function in sortextable.c 2013-07-25 16:20:33 +02:00
sortextable.h scripts/sortextable: silence script output 2013-02-14 15:04:41 +01:00
tags.sh scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for OFFSET and DEFINE 2013-03-27 14:22:03 +01:00
unifdef.c unifdef: update to upstream version 2.5 2011-01-22 15:50:59 +01:00
ver_linux
xz_wrap.sh xz: Enable BCJ filters on SPARC and 32-bit x86 2012-04-18 13:13:18 -07:00