checkpatch: test SYMBOLIC_PERMS multiple times per line
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:33:53 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:28:36 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
There are occasions where symbolic perms are used in a ternary like

return (channel == 0) ? S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR : S_IRUGO;

The current test will find the first use "S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR" but not the
second use "S_IRUGO" on the same line.

Improve the test to look for all instances on a line.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522127944.12357.49.camel@perches.com
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 5fe361e1ed5e46451fe87ac7ecb76c01de798c04..d2464002bb40dfaba8ab52f4f0df07b94ce1b42d 100755 (executable)
@@ -6429,7 +6429,7 @@ sub process {
                }
 
 # check for uses of S_<PERMS> that could be octal for readability
-               if ($line =~ /\b($multi_mode_perms_string_search)\b/) {
+               while ($line =~ m{\b($multi_mode_perms_string_search)\b}g) {
                        my $oval = $1;
                        my $octal = perms_to_octal($oval);
                        if (WARN("SYMBOLIC_PERMS",