checkpatch: warn on #defines ending in semicolon

Using a #define ending in a semicolon is poor style and can lead to
unexpected code paths being executed.

Warn on uses of these #define types:

	#define foo[(...)] bar;
	#define foo[(...)]	\
		bar;

Based on a patch from Borislav Petkov.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Joe Perches 2014-06-04 16:12:06 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2ac73b4f68
commit f5ef95b12e

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@ -3821,6 +3821,17 @@ sub process {
WARN("DO_WHILE_MACRO_WITH_TRAILING_SEMICOLON",
"do {} while (0) macros should not be semicolon terminated\n" . "$herectx");
}
} elsif ($dstat =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+$Ident.*;\s*$/) {
$ctx =~ s/\n*$//;
my $cnt = statement_rawlines($ctx);
my $herectx = $here . "\n";
for (my $n = 0; $n < $cnt; $n++) {
$herectx .= raw_line($linenr, $n) . "\n";
}
WARN("TRAILING_SEMICOLON",
"macros should not use a trailing semicolon\n" . "$herectx");
}
}