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authorMateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>2015-06-26 01:03:13 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-26 03:00:42 +0300
commitb6117d175be9972fc300f826e6f2bf9c589e0919 (patch)
treede2fc88e4163194fb3c30941ac7762ae7f084411 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent06330fc40e3f3034de4934ec347604b5e36c40c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-b6117d175be9972fc300f826e6f2bf9c589e0919.tar.xz
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 <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
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 &&