On 10/21/2015 10:33 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
 On 15/10/21, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 12:10 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>> On 15/10/18, Scott Matheina wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2015 04:54 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, October 10, 2015 08:57:55 PM Scott Matheina wrote:
> []
>>>>> diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> []
>>>>> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ void audit_free_rule_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>  	struct audit_entry *e = container_of(head, struct audit_entry,
rcu);
>>>>>  	audit_free_rule(e);
>>>>> +
>>>>>  }
>>>> Why?
>>> I was following the error messages in checkpatch.pl, but the warning
>>> went away after adding this line. No problem with the code. 
>> That sounds like a bug in checkpatch.pl, since that blank line should be
>> tween the declaration and the function call.
> checkpatch message asks for a blank line after the
> "struct audit_entry *e = ..." declaration.
 Well then maybe it is a bug in his interpretation of the output of
 checkpatch.pl?  Scott, did you re-run checkpatch.pl after adding those
 spaces?  Did it pass? 
The error did go away. 
>>>>>  	while (*list != ~0U) {
>>>>> +
>>>>>  		unsigned n = *list++;
>>>>>  		if (n >= AUDIT_BITMASK_SIZE * 32 - AUDIT_SYSCALL_CLASSES) {
>>>>>  			kfree(p);
>>>> Why?
>>> This is the same as above. Just going through the checkpatch.pl
>>> script, and looking for warnings to fix. 
>> Again, another manifestation of that bug?  That blank line should be
>> after the declaration and before the if statement.
> []
>> Well, I agree, you have to start somewhere...  Too bad you hit a bug in
>> checkpatch.pl!
> Here too, not a bug in checkpatch.
>
> checkpatch output asks for a blank line after the
> "unsigned n" declaration, not before.
 - RGB
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