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authorAlexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>2023-04-27 17:10:08 -0400
committerMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2023-09-10 19:38:01 +0300
commitdb56206f785909aa830e2a19336bb12abca50e82 (patch)
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checkpatch: add qemu_bh_new/aio_bh_new checks
Advise authors to use the _guarded versions of the APIs, instead. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20230427211013.2994127-4-alxndr@bu.edu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit ef56ffbdd6b0605dc1e305611287b948c970e236) Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d768171..eeaec43 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2865,6 +2865,14 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\bsignal\s*\(/ && !($line =~ /SIG_(?:IGN|DFL)/)) {
ERROR("use sigaction to establish signal handlers; signal is not portable\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# recommend qemu_bh_new_guarded instead of qemu_bh_new
+ if ($realfile =~ /.*\/hw\/.*/ && $line =~ /\bqemu_bh_new\s*\(/) {
+ ERROR("use qemu_bh_new_guarded() instead of qemu_bh_new() to avoid reentrancy problems\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+# recommend aio_bh_new_guarded instead of aio_bh_new
+ if ($realfile =~ /.*\/hw\/.*/ && $line =~ /\baio_bh_new\s*\(/) {
+ ERROR("use aio_bh_new_guarded() instead of aio_bh_new() to avoid reentrancy problems\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
# check for module_init(), use category-specific init macros explicitly please
if ($line =~ /^module_init\s*\(/) {
ERROR("please use block_init(), type_init() etc. instead of module_init()\n" . $herecurr);