On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 22:10 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> Avoid automatic k[mz]alloc with multiplies conversions
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -4427,7 +4427,7 @@ sub process {
>                       $newfunc = "kcalloc" if ($oldfunc eq "kzalloc");
>                       if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/ || $a2 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
>                               if (WARN("ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY",
> -                                      "Prefer $newfunc over $oldfunc with 
> multiply\n" . $herecurr) &&
> +                                      "Prefer $newfunc over $oldfunc with 
> multiply when arguments are not fixed or come from unvalidated source\n" . 
> $herecurr) &&
>                                   $fix) {
>                                       my $r1 = $a1;
>                                       my $r2 = $a2;

I'm not sure of the value of this as I think at some point
if not already today, the compiler will optimize the multiply
away.

But it's probably better to look at the non-sizeof variable
and emit the warning only when it's not $Constant or some
upper-case only macro #define like "\b[A-Z_]+\b" is used.

Maybe something like this:

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6c7cbaf..e0d0ead 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4486,22 +4486,23 @@ sub process {
 
 # check for k[mz]alloc with multiplies that could be kmalloc_array/kcalloc
                if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
-                   $line =~ 
/\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)/)
 {
+                   $line =~ 
/\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)\s*,/)
 {
                        my $oldfunc = $3;
                        my $a1 = $4;
                        my $a2 = $10;
                        my $newfunc = "kmalloc_array";
                        $newfunc = "kcalloc" if ($oldfunc eq "kzalloc");
-                       if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/ || $a2 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
+                       my $r1 = $a1;
+                       my $r2 = $a2;
+                       if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
+                               $r1 = $a2;
+                               $r2 = $a1;
+                       }
+                       if ($r1 !~ /^sizeof\b/ && $r2 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/ &&
+                           !($r1 =~ /^$Constant$/ || $r1 =~ /^[A-Z_]+$/)) {
                                if (WARN("ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY",
                                         "Prefer $newfunc over $oldfunc with 
multiply\n" . $herecurr) &&
                                    $fix) {
-                                       my $r1 = $a1;
-                                       my $r2 = $a2;
-                                       if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
-                                               $r1 = $a2;
-                                               $r2 = $a1;
-                                       }
                                        $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ 
s/\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)/$1
 . ' = ' . "$newfunc(" . trim($r1) . ', ' . trim($r2)/e;
 
                                }


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