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| author | Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com> | 2025-12-03 20:58:49 +0530 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-12-10 16:07:42 -0800 |
| commit | 01da5216c572f6f8fca4e272451aad6c273b0d57 (patch) | |
| tree | d4763ea13351c0e1f4b14e75950b13718c447614 /scripts | |
| parent | e6b4d264c8c883d8451c7b5f20cd96ddf94af3ef (diff) | |
checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior
as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when
the pointer goes out of scope. add check in checkpatch to detect such
issues.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index d58ca9655ab7..c0250244cf7a 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -7732,6 +7732,12 @@ sub process { ERROR("MISSING_SENTINEL", "missing sentinel in ID array\n" . "$here\n$stat\n"); } } + +# check for uninitialized pointers with __free attribute + while ($line =~ /\*\s*($Ident)\s+__free\s*\(\s*$Ident\s*\)\s*[,;]/g) { + ERROR("UNINITIALIZED_PTR_WITH_FREE", + "pointer '$1' with __free attribute should be initialized\n" . $herecurr); + } } # If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on |