From b6117d175be9972fc300f826e6f2bf9c589e0919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:03:13 -0700
Subject: checkpatch: suggest using ether_addr_equal*()

Check if memcmp() is used to compare ethernet addresses and suggest using
ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned()

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 69c4716d9e27..f04fe88d998d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5157,6 +5157,14 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# Check for memcmp(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_equal*(foo, bar)
+		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+		    defined $stat &&
+		    $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcmp\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
+			WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_EQUAL",
+			     "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n")
+		}
+
 # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
 		    defined $stat &&
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