checkpatch.pl: check for function declarations without arguments
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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1dbd6d1..0ea2a1e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2665,6 +2665,15 @@
$herecurr);
}
+# check for function declarations without arguments like "int foo()"
+ if ($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",
