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| author | Marco Elver <elver@google.com> | 2025-12-19 16:39:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2026-01-05 16:43:27 +0100 |
| commit | 25d3b21e1d41f7b58aeb62b97b05d86d43c91801 (patch) | |
| tree | 45413549ad18a52c0f7046a58a0b29e0e24c07fa /scripts | |
| parent | 8f32441d7a532804a8d9e2ae36f9b13c353934d7 (diff) | |
checkpatch: Warn about context_unsafe() without comment
Warn about applications of context_unsafe() without a comment, to
encourage documenting the reasoning behind why it was deemed safe.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-6-elver@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index c0250244cf7a..c4fd8bdff528 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6733,6 +6733,13 @@ sub process { } } +# check for context_unsafe without a comment. + if ($line =~ /\bcontext_unsafe\b/ && + !ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) { + WARN("CONTEXT_UNSAFE", + "context_unsafe without comment\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check of hardware specific defines if ($line =~ m@^.\s*\#\s*if.*\b(__i386__|__powerpc64__|__sun__|__s390x__)\b@ && $realfile !~ m@include/asm-@) { CHK("ARCH_DEFINES", |