From: David Hildenbrand Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:34:25 +0000 (+0200) Subject: checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants X-Git-Tag: v6.1-rc5~181^2~12 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69d517e6e21099f81efbd39e47874649ae575804;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants checkpatch does not point out that VM_BUG_ON() and friends should be avoided, however, Linus notes: VM_BUG_ON() has the exact same semantics as BUG_ON. It is literally no different, the only difference is "we can make the code smaller because these are less important". [1] So let's warn on VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants as well. While at it, make it clearer that the kernel really shouldn't be crashed. As there are some subsystem BUG macros that actually don't end up crashing the kernel -- for example, KVM_BUG_ON() -- exclude these manually. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg40EAZofO16Eviaj7mfqDhZ2gVEbvfsMf6gYzspRjYvw@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923113426.52871-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 812af52..4aa09e0 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4695,12 +4695,12 @@ sub process { } } -# avoid BUG() or BUG_ON() - if ($line =~ /\b(?:BUG|BUG_ON)\b/) { +# do not use BUG() or variants + if ($line =~ /\b(?!AA_|BUILD_|DCCP_|IDA_|KVM_|RWLOCK_|snd_|SPIN_)(?:[a-zA-Z_]*_)?BUG(?:_ON)?(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(/) { my $msg_level = \&WARN; $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file); &{$msg_level}("AVOID_BUG", - "Avoid crashing the kernel - try using WARN_ON & recovery code rather than BUG() or BUG_ON()\n" . $herecurr); + "Do not crash the kernel unless it is absolutely unavoidable--use WARN_ON_ONCE() plus recovery code (if feasible) instead of BUG() or variants\n" . $herecurr); } # avoid LINUX_VERSION_CODE