Commit 080ba929 authored by Mike Frysinger's avatar Mike Frysinger Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: try to catch missing VMLINUX_SYMBOL() in vmlinux.lds.h

Seems like every other release we have someone who updates vmlinux.lds.h
and adds C-visible symbols without VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around them.  So start
checking the file and reject assignments which have plain symbols on
either side.

[apw@canonical.com: soften the check, add tests]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 86f9d059
......@@ -2224,6 +2224,15 @@ sub process {
}
}
# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
# .
# ALIGN(...)
# VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...)
if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ /(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) {
WARN("vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for redundant bracing round if etc
if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) {
my ($level, $endln, @chunks) =
......
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