* [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix regex for do without braces
@ 2021-06-27 18:23 Dwaipayan Ray
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From: Dwaipayan Ray @ 2021-06-27 18:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: joe, apw; +Cc: lukas.bulwahn, linux-kernel, Dwaipayan Ray, Alejandro Colomar
The regular expression for detecting do without braces
also passes when checkpatch encounters the "double"
keyword. This causes wrong recalculation of $stat in
checkpatch which can cause false positives.
Fix the regex to avoid the above. Also update the comments
for the check.
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8d19beca3538..cba68420fd55 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5488,9 +5488,8 @@ sub process {
}
}
-# Check for illegal assignment in if conditional -- and check for trailing
-# statements after the conditional.
- if ($line =~ /do\s*(?!{)/) {
+# If we have sufficient context detect and handle do without braces ({).
+ if ($line =~ /do\b\s*(?!{)/) {
($stat, $cond, $line_nr_next, $remain_next, $off_next) =
ctx_statement_block($linenr, $realcnt, 0)
if (!defined $stat);
@@ -5511,6 +5510,9 @@ sub process {
$offset} = 1;
}
}
+
+# Check for illegal assignment in if conditional -- and check for trailing
+# statements after the conditional.
if (!defined $suppress_whiletrailers{$linenr} &&
defined($stat) && defined($cond) &&
$line =~ /\b(?:if|while|for)\s*\(/ && $line !~ /^.\s*#/) {
--
2.28.0
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