Re: [PATCH] scripts: A new script for checking duplicate struct declaration

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu,  1 Apr 2021 19:09:43 +0800 Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> checkdeclares: find struct declared more than once.
> Inspired by checkincludes.pl.
> This script checks for duplicate struct declares.
> Note that this will not take into consideration macros, so
> you should run this only if you know you do have real dups
> and do not have them under #ifdef's.
> You could also just review the results.

include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h: struct bpf_prog is declared more than once.
include/linux/bpf.h: struct xdp_buff is declared more than once.
include/linux/bpf.h: struct sk_buff is declared more than once.
include/linux/bpf.h: struct btf_type is declared more than once.
include/linux/debug_locks.h: struct task_struct is declared more than once.
include/linux/fs.h: struct iov_iter is declared more than once.
include/linux/fs.h: struct files_struct is declared more than once.
include/linux/gpio.h: struct device is declared more than once.
include/linux/host1x.h: struct host1x is declared more than once.
include/linux/intel_rapl.h: struct rapl_package is declared more than once.
include/linux/libnvdimm.h: struct device is declared more than once.
include/linux/lightnvm.h: struct nvm_rq is declared more than once.
include/linux/memcontrol.h: struct mem_cgroup is declared more than once.
include/linux/mount.h: struct path is declared more than once.
include/linux/mutex.h: struct ww_acquire_ctx is declared more than once.
include/linux/netfilter.h: struct flowi is declared more than once.
include/linux/netfilter.h: struct nf_conntrack_tuple is declared more than once.
include/linux/netfilter.h: struct nlattr is declared more than once.
include/linux/netfilter.h: struct nf_conn is declared more than once.
include/linux/profile.h: struct pt_regs is declared more than once.
include/linux/trace_events.h: struct trace_array is declared more than once.

Sigh.  I keep telling them - "put the forward declaration at
top-of-file so it doesn't get duplicated later on".  Nobody listens to
Andrew.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/checkdeclares.pl
> @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env perl
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#
> +# checkdeclares: find struct declared more than once
> +#
> +# Copyright 2021 Wan Jiabing<wanjiabing@xxxxxxxx>
> +# Inspired by checkincludes.pl
> +#
> +# This script checks for duplicate struct declares.
> +# Note that this will not take into consideration macros so
> +# you should run this only if you know you do have real dups
> +# and do not have them under #ifdef's.
> +# You could also just review the results.
> +
> +use strict;
> +
> +sub usage {
> +	print "Usage: checkdeclares.pl \n";
> +	print "We just warn of struct declaration duplicates\n";

Not quite accurate.  I added this fixup:

--- a/scripts/checkdeclares.pl~scripts-a-new-script-for-checking-duplicate-struct-declaration-fix
+++ a/scripts/checkdeclares.pl
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 use strict;
 
 sub usage {
-	print "Usage: checkdeclares.pl \n";
-	print "We just warn of struct declaration duplicates\n";
+	print "Usage: checkdeclares.pl file1.h ...\n";
+	print "Warns of struct declaration duplicates\n";
 	exit 1;
 }