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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-05-11 20:08:07 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-05-12 03:00:30 +0300
commit6b9ea5ff5abdcda9d1291d9b8bbad44c93c7ccef (patch)
tree77cd27b5c903f53758386bfe3141fe54d3424eb7 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent97cf0ef9305bba857f04b914fd59e83813f1eae2 (diff)
downloadlinux-6b9ea5ff5abdcda9d1291d9b8bbad44c93c7ccef.tar.xz
checkpatch: warn about uses of ENOTSUPP
ENOTSUPP often feels like the right error code to use, but it's in fact not a standard Unix error. E.g.: $ python >>> import errno >>> errno.errorcode[errno.ENOTSUPP] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: module 'errno' has no attribute 'ENOTSUPP' There were numerous commits converting the uses back to EOPNOTSUPP but in some cases we are stuck with the high error code for backward compatibility reasons. Let's try prevent more ENOTSUPPs from getting into the kernel. Recent example: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200510182252.GA411829@lunn.ch/ v3 (Joe): - fix the "not file" condition. v2 (Joe): - add a link to recent discussion, - don't match when scanning files, not patches to avoid sudden influx of conversion patches. https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200511165319.2251678-1-kuba@kernel.org/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200510185148.2230767-1-kuba@kernel.org/ Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index eac40f0abd56..2be07ed4d70c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4199,6 +4199,17 @@ sub process {
"ENOSYS means 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new patches.
+# Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type ENOTSUPP.
+# Similarly to ENOSYS warning a small number of false positives is expected.
+ if (!$file && $line =~ /\bENOTSUPP\b/) {
+ if (WARN("ENOTSUPP",
+ "ENOTSUPP is not a SUSV4 error code, prefer EOPNOTSUPP\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bENOTSUPP\b/EOPNOTSUPP/;
+ }
+ }
+
# function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
# or if closed on same line
if ($perl_version_ok &&