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SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for illegal return codes
On 2018-07-03 11:19, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 11:09 -0700, Prakruthi Deepak Heragu wrote:
>> The only legal integer return is 0, anything else
>> following "return" should be -ERRCODE or a function.
>>
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/23/318
>> There's lots of "return -1;" statements in this patch - it's obscene
>> that this is used to indicate "some error occurred" in kernel space
>> rather than a real errno value - even when an existing function
>> (eg, request_irq) gave you an error code already.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <pheragu@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> index a9c0550..260d252 100755
>> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> @@ -6197,6 +6197,12 @@ sub process {
>> "switch default: should use break\n" . $herectx);
>> }
>>
>> +# check for return codes on error paths
>> + if ($line =~ /\breturn\s+-\d+/) {
>> + ERROR("NO_ERROR_CODE",
>> + "illegal return value, please use an error code");
>> + }
>> +
>
> Substitute illegal to invalid as this wouldn't be illegal.
> It might be invalid and this needs a newline and $herecurr
>
> I'm not sure this is even useful.
>
> There are _way_ too many of these already existing
> and simple return identifiers can be OK.
>
> $ git grep -P '\breturn\s*\-(?!0)\d+' | wc -l
> 10193
>
> and
>
> $ git grep -P '\breturn\s*\-(?!1)\d+' | wc -l
> 240
True. However, this would be helpful to avoid usage of such return
statements in the future.

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