checkpatch: report any absolute references to kernel source files

Absolute references to kernel source files are generally only useful
locally to the originator of the patch.  Check for any such references and
report them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft 2008-10-15 22:02:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e09dec4831
commit 6ecd967444
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@ -958,6 +958,33 @@ sub CHK {
} }
} }
sub check_absolute_file {
my ($absolute, $herecurr) = @_;
my $file = $absolute;
##print "absolute<$absolute>\n";
# See if any suffix of this path is a path within the tree.
while ($file =~ s@^[^/]*/@@) {
if (-f "$root/$file") {
##print "file<$file>\n";
last;
}
}
if (! -f _) {
return 0;
}
# It is, so see if the prefix is acceptable.
my $prefix = $absolute;
substr($prefix, -length($file)) = '';
##print "prefix<$prefix>\n";
if ($prefix ne ".../") {
WARN("use relative pathname instead of absolute in changelog text\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
sub process { sub process {
my $filename = shift; my $filename = shift;
@ -1168,6 +1195,20 @@ sub process {
$herecurr) if (!$emitted_corrupt++); $herecurr) if (!$emitted_corrupt++);
} }
# Check for absolute kernel paths.
if ($tree) {
while ($line =~ m{(?:^|\s)(/\S*)}g) {
my $file = $1;
if ($file =~ m{^(.*?)(?::\d+)+:?$} &&
check_absolute_file($1, $herecurr)) {
#
} else {
check_absolute_file($file, $herecurr);
}
}
}
# UTF-8 regex found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.en.php # UTF-8 regex found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.en.php
if (($realfile =~ /^$/ || $line =~ /^\+/) && if (($realfile =~ /^$/ || $line =~ /^\+/) &&
$rawline !~ m/^$UTF8*$/) { $rawline !~ m/^$UTF8*$/) {