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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for current->comm references
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On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 20:13 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index d867081..9d2eab5 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -2868,6 +2868,10 @@ sub process {
> > WARN("usage of NR_CPUS is often wrong - consider using cpu_possible(), num_possible_cpus(), for_each_possible_cpu(), etc\n" . $herecurr);
> > }
> >
> > +# check for current->comm usage
> > + if ($line =~ /current->comm/) {
> > + WARN("comm access needs to be protected. Use get_task_comm, or printk's \%ptc formatting.\n" . $herecurr);
>
> I think we should convert all of task->comm usage. not only current. At least, you plan to remove task_lock() from
> %ptc patch later.

Yea, I'll be updating the patch to try to catch more then just
current->comm.

thanks
-john




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