[PATCHv3 7/7] checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 12:53:19 AEST 2017


We deprecated '%pF/%pf' printk specifiers, since '%pS/%ps' is now smart
enough to handle function pointer dereference on platforms where such
dereference is required.

checkpatch warning example:

WARNING: Deprecated vsprintf pointer extension '%pF' - use %pS instead

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de> # parisc64
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh at fossix.org> # powerpc64
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> # powerpc64
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com> # ia64
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 03eb2551477d..387c453413e0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5762,18 +5762,25 @@ sub process {
 		        for (my $count = $linenr; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
 				my $fmt = get_quoted_string($lines[$count - 1], raw_line($count, 0));
 				$fmt =~ s/%%//g;
-				if ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WFfSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
+				if ($fmt =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGNO]).)/) {
 					$bad_extension = $1;
 					last;
 				}
 			}
 			if ($bad_extension ne "") {
 				my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, 0);
+				my $ext_type = "Invalid";
+				my $use = "";
 				for (my $count = $linenr + 1; $count <= $lc; $count++) {
 					$stat_real = $stat_real . "\n" . raw_line($count, 0);
 				}
+				if ($bad_extension =~ /p[Ff]/) {
+					$ext_type = "Deprecated";
+					$use = " - use %pS instead";
+					$use =~ s/pS/ps/ if ($bad_extension =~ /pf/);
+				}
 				WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION",
-				     "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_extension'\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
+				     "$ext_type vsprintf pointer extension '$bad_extension'$use\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
 			}
 		}
 
-- 
2.14.2



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