Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Mon, 16 May 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> > Now that accessing current->comm needs to be protected,
> > @@ -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 =~ /\b(?:current|task|tsk|t)\s*->\s*comm\b/) {
> 
> Not a checkpatch.pl expert but as far as I'm concerned, that looks reasonable.
> 
> I was sort of worried that t->comm could produce quite a few false positives
> but all its appearances in the kernel (seem to) refer to task.
> 

It's guaranteed to generate false positives since perf events uses a field 
of the same name to store a thread's comm, so I think the most important 
thing is for the checkpatch output to specify that this _may_ be a 
dereference of a thread's comm that needs get_task_comm() or %ptc.

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