From 972fdea2e6ece7578915d386a5447bc78d3fb8b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for reuse of krealloc arg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 13:30 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > If krealloc() returns NULL, it *doesn't* free the original. So any code > of the form 'foo = krealloc(foo, …);' is almost certainly a bug. So add a check for it to checkpatch. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Guenter Roeck Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4de4bc48493b..a820249a3fce 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3477,6 +3477,13 @@ sub process { "unnecessary cast may hide bugs, see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for krealloc arg reuse + if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && + $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*\1\s*,/) { + WARN("KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE", + "Reusing the krealloc arg is almost always a bug\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for alloc argument mismatch if ($line =~ /\b(kcalloc|kmalloc_array)\s*\(\s*sizeof\b/) { WARN("ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS",