checkpatch: emit an error on formats with 0x%<decimal>
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:37:47 +0000 (15:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:29:01 +0000 (13:29 -0700)
Using 0x%d is wrong.  Emit a message when it happens.

Miscellanea:

Improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index 41ecae81de9983ed7baea77e0a78b786820250e3..d98ffdd2180f135d4718bd4fd388b833adee14c0 100755 (executable)
@@ -4816,16 +4816,20 @@ sub process {
                             "Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr);
                }
 
-# check for %L{u,d,i} in strings
+# check for %L{u,d,i} and 0x%[udi] in strings
                my $string;
                while ($line =~ /(?:^|")([X\t]*)(?:"|$)/g) {
                        $string = substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]);
                        $string =~ s/%%/__/g;
-                       if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%L[udi]/) {
+                       if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%[\*\d\.\$]*L[udi]/) {
                                WARN("PRINTF_L",
                                     "\%Ld/%Lu are not-standard C, use %lld/%llu\n" . $herecurr);
                                last;
                        }
+                       if ($string =~ /0x%[\*\d\.\$\Llzth]*[udi]/) {
+                               ERROR("PRINTF_0xDECIMAL",
+                                     "Prefixing 0x with decimal output is defective\n" . $herecurr);
+                       }
                }
 
 # check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of "