As described in the Coccinelle documentation (Documentation/dev-tools/ coccinelle.rst), chain mode should try patch, report, context, and org modes until one of them succeed.
It turns out that currently, the 'run_cmd_parmap' function, by failing to run $SPATCH, rather than returning an error code, kills the execution of the script by executing the exit command, rather than returning the error code. This way, when running coccicheck in chain mode, as in: $ make coccicheck MODE=chain the first .cocci file that does not support one of the virtual rules stops the execution of the makefile, rather than trying the remaining rules as specified in the documentation. Therefore, modify the coccicheck script to return the error code, rather than terminating the script. Signed-off-by: Davidson Francis <davidsond...@gmail.com> --- scripts/coccicheck | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck index 65fee63aeadb..15711bd43395 100755 --- a/scripts/coccicheck +++ b/scripts/coccicheck @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ run_cmd_parmap() { err=$? if [[ $err -ne 0 ]]; then echo "coccicheck failed" - exit $err + return $err fi } -- 2.29.1 _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list Cocci@systeme.lip6.fr https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci