From b6117d175be9972fc300f826e6f2bf9c589e0919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mateusz Kulikowski Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:03:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: suggest using ether_addr_equal*() Check if memcmp() is used to compare ethernet addresses and suggest using ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: David Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 69c4716d9e27..f04fe88d998d 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5157,6 +5157,14 @@ sub process { } } +# Check for memcmp(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_equal*(foo, bar) + if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && + defined $stat && + $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcmp\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) { + WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_EQUAL", + "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") + } + # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && defined $stat &&