[PATCH] checkpatch: warn about direct use of send_sig_info and force_sig_info

From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: elver@google.com, "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com,
	dwaipayanray1@gmail.com, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about direct use of send_sig_info and force_sig_info
Date: Thu,  6 May 2021 15:28:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210506132827.3198497-1-elver@google.com> (raw)

Setting up siginfo and using send_sig_info() and force_sig_info()
directly is discouraged. Instead, new code wanting to generate signals
should use the appropriate helper specific to the signal.

Eric mentioned that he'd like to make these static at some point, but
until that can happen, let's try to avoid introducing new users of them.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
Eric,

While siginfo doesn't need changing often, when it does, it's quite the
adventure. We now have the various static asserts. The other thing is
usage of {send,force}_sig_info.

I think the best option right now is to teach checkpatch.pl about it
until they become static.

Fyi, I noticed one such new user here:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421024826.13529-1-wangjunqiang@iscas.ac.cn

Thanks,
-- Marco
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ccb412a74725..3a86aafc3bcd 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7153,6 +7153,12 @@ sub process {
 			     "Where possible, use lockdep_assert_held instead of assertions based on spin_is_locked\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+# check for direct use of send_sig_info(), force_sig_info()
+		if ($line =~ /\b((force|send)_sig_info)\(/) {
+			WARN("USE_SIGINFO_HELPER",
+			     "Where possible, avoid using '$1' directly and use a signal-specific helper setting required siginfo fields (see include/linux/sched/signal.h).\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # check for deprecated apis
 		if ($line =~ /\b($deprecated_apis_search)\b\s*\(/) {
 			my $deprecated_api = $1;
-- 
2.31.1.607.g51e8a6a459-goog

