[PATCH v1 0/7] Landlock: Clean up coding style with clang-format
Mickaël Salaün
mic at digikod.net
Mon May 9 09:45:44 UTC 2022
On 09/05/2022 11:06, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Hi Mickaël,
>
> (Answering in v1 since I want to quote something in this cover letter)
There is only a v1 for this specific series, but other series (with
higher versions) are now relying on this one. ;)
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 6:03 PM Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net> wrote:
>>
>> I used a simple coding style for the initial Landlock code. However,
>> this may be subject to different interpretations. To avoid relying
>> on tacit knowledge or text editors for these kind of rules, let's
>> automate it as much as possible thanks to clang-format. This makes the
>> code formatting simple, consistent and impersonal.
>
> Thanks for moving your subsystem to `clang-format`. I am glad you
> found it useful.
>
>> Several versions of clang-format can be use but they may have (small)
>> different behaviors for undefined/new configuration parts. After
>> testing different versions, I picked clang-format-14 which is relatively
>> new and fixes a bug present in version 11 to 13 (visible in the Landlock
>> formatted code).
>
> Which was the bug?
You can check it by running clang-format-X on security/landlock/fs.c [1]
and you'll get different results for this hunk (only):
--- a/security/landlock/fs.c
+++ b/security/landlock/fs.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ static inline access_mask_t maybe_remove(const
struct dentry *const dentry)
if (d_is_negative(dentry))
return 0;
return d_is_dir(dentry) ? LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REMOVE_DIR :
- LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REMOVE_FILE;
+ LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REMOVE_FILE;
}
/**
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux.git/log/?h=landlock-wip
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