Commit 309c00c7 authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: warn about memset with swapped arguments

Because the second and third arguments of memset have the same type, it
turns out to be really easy to mix them up.

This bug comes up time after time, so checkpatch should really be checking
for it at patch submission time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b0781216
......@@ -2902,6 +2902,11 @@ sub process {
$line =~ /DEVICE_ATTR.*S_IWUGO/ ) {
WARN("Exporting world writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.\n" . $herecurr);
}
# Check for memset with swapped arguments
if ($line =~ /memset.*\,(\ |)(0x|)0(\ |0|)\);/) {
ERROR("memset size is 3rd argument, not the second.\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on
......
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