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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2009-02-27 14:03:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-27 16:26:21 -0800
commit00ef4ece05096a5c523e265b8ce6627fb5e171c2 (patch)
tree13e3db3b95e04ed3fd53dae599a947c87e87c799
parente2f7aa4b8bc811ebf8afbdf423caf90a5a03cb08 (diff)
checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types, for example: void * __user * __user bar; Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5ffc940399b..92d13710ff5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ sub process {
# * goes on variable not on type
# (char*[ const])
- if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+ if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) {
my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
# Should start with a space.
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ sub process {
if ($from ne $to) {
ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" . $herecurr);
}
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+ } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) {
my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
# Should start with a space.