checkpatch: prefer ether_addr_copy to memcpy(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN)

ether_addr_copy was added for kernel version 3.14. It's slightly smaller/faster for some arches. Encourage its use. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Cc: David Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Jan 24, 2014 · 98a9bba · 98a9bba
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4087,6 +4087,16 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# Check for memcpy(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_copy(foo, bar)
+		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+		    $line =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/s) {
+			if (WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY",
+				 "Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)\n" . $herecurr) &&
+			    $fix) {
+				$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/ether_addr_copy($2, $7)/;
+			}
+		}
+
 # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
 		    defined $stat &&