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checkpatch.pl: check for function declarations without arguments

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Functions like this one are evil:

void foo()
{
	...
}

Because these functions allow variadic arguments without
checking the arguments at all.

Original patch by Richard Weinberger.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2014-01-27 17:07:18 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a3978a5194
commit b36190c5f8
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@ -2665,6 +2665,15 @@ sub process {
$herecurr);
}
# check for function declarations without arguments like "int foo()"
if ($line =~ /(\b$Type\s+$Ident)\s*\(\s*\)/) {
if (ERROR("FUNCTION_WITHOUT_ARGS",
"Bad function definition - $1() should probably be $1(void)\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/(\b($Type)\s+($Ident))\s*\(\s*\)/$2 $3(void)/;
}
}
# check for uses of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
if ($line =~ /\bDEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)\s*=/) {
if (WARN("DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE",