[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: Disallow glib asserts in main code

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)]

From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>

Glib commit a6a875068779 (from 2013) made many of the glib assert
macros non-fatal if a flag is set.
This causes two problems:
  a) Compilers moan that your code is unsafe even though you've
     put an assert in before the point of use.
  b) Someone evil could, in a library, call
     g_test_set_nonfatal_assertions() and cause our assertions in
     important places not to fail and potentially allow memory overruns.

Ban most of the glib assertion functions (basically everything except
g_assert and g_assert_not_reached) except in tests/

This makes checkpatch gives an error such as:

  ERROR: Use g_assert or g_assert_not_reached
  #77: FILE: vl.c:4725:
  +    g_assert_cmpstr("Chocolate", >, "Cheese");

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f084542934..73cee81b79 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2571,6 +2571,27 @@ sub process {
                if ($line =~ /\bbzero\(/) {
                        ERROR("use memset() instead of bzero()\n" . $herecurr);
                }
+               my $non_exit_glib_asserts = qr{g_assert_cmpstr|
+                                               g_assert_cmpint|
+                                               g_assert_cmpuint|
+                                               g_assert_cmphex|
+                                               g_assert_cmpfloat|
+                                               g_assert_true|
+                                               g_assert_false|
+                                               g_assert_nonnull|
+                                               g_assert_null|
+                                               g_assert_no_error|
+                                               g_assert_error|
+                                               g_test_assert_expected_messages|
+                                               g_test_trap_assert_passed|
+                                               g_test_trap_assert_stdout|
+                                               
g_test_trap_assert_stdout_unmatched|
+                                               g_test_trap_assert_stderr|
+                                               
g_test_trap_assert_stderr_unmatched}x;
+               if ($realfile !~ /^tests\// &&
+                       $line =~ /\b(?:$non_exit_glib_asserts)\(/) {
+                       ERROR("Use g_assert or g_assert_not_reached\n". 
$herecurr);
+               }
        }
 
        # If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on
-- 
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