On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:44:44 -0700 Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:

> With some exceptions, warn on void functions that end with a
> "return;", because it's unnecessary.
> 
> Check the closing brace at the start of a line.
> If the line before that has a single tab, then return;
> look at the line before that.  If it's not a label,
> emit a warning.
> 
> So, emit a warning on:
> 
> void function(...)
> {
>       [...]
>       return;
> }
> 
> but do not emit a warning on the below because
> gcc requires any statement (including a bare
> semicolon) before the closing function brace:
> 
> void function(...)
> {
>       [...]
>               goto label;
>       [...]
> 
> label:
>       return;
> }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> V2: The previous patch had a few too many false positives
>     on styles that should be acceptable.

Previous patch is now in mainline, so I did this:


From: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Subject: checkpatch: reduce false positives when checking void function return 
statements

The previous patch had a few too many false positives on styles that
should be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Anish Bhatt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-when-checking-void-function-return-statements
 scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- 
a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-when-checking-void-function-return-statements
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3484,12 +3484,17 @@ sub process {
                        }
                }
 
-# unnecessary return in a void function? (a single leading tab, then return;)
-               if ($sline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ &&
-                   $prevline =~ /^\+/) {
+# unnecessary return in a void function
+# at end-of-function, with the previous line a single leading tab, then return;
+# and the line before that not a goto label target like "out:"
+               if ($sline =~ /^[ \+]}\s*$/ &&
+                   $prevline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ &&
+                   $linenr >= 3 &&
+                   $lines[$linenr - 3] =~ /^[ +]/ &&
+                   $lines[$linenr - 3] !~ /^[ +]\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
                        WARN("RETURN_VOID",
-                            "void function return statements are not generally 
useful\n" . $herecurr);
-               }
+                            "void function return statements are not generally 
useful\n" . $hereprev);
+               }
 
 # if statements using unnecessary parentheses - ie: if ((foo == bar))
                if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
_

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