From 1727cc70451017e6d9c0129681792c18f166af75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:49:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: update octal permissions warning When checking permissions, make sure 4 octal digits are used, but allow a single 0 too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 1054283c6e70..9f12213d81cf 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4512,9 +4512,11 @@ sub process { my $val = $1; $val = $6 if ($skip_args ne ""); - if ($val =~ /^$Int$/ && $val !~ /^$Octal$/) { + if ($val !~ /^0$/ && + (($val =~ /^$Int$/ && $val !~ /^$Octal$/) || + length($val) ne 4)) { ERROR("NON_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS", - "Use octal not decimal permissions\n" . $herecurr); + "Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions\n" . $herecurr); } } } -- 2.39.5