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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:36 -0700
commit0776e594606e32a045e0a99bb919b2280b945495 (patch)
treeda5cb9f363484fcf343c72b7b48ada5191b97cf0 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent5fdd23acf9cd7f658746b119436ed1d787326c46 (diff)
checkpatch: do is not a possible type
A do without braces '{' may trigger a false possible type 'do' and then this may be interpreted as an external definition of foo(): do foo(); while (bar); Add do to the type exclusions. Fix up tests so we can check for them. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl24
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 118fe1f30e7..6b21188d2cf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -913,12 +913,22 @@ sub annotate_values {
sub possible {
my ($possible, $line) = @_;
- print "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 1);
- if ($possible !~ /^(?:$Modifier|$Storage|$Type|DEFINE_\S+)$/ &&
- $possible ne 'goto' && $possible ne 'return' &&
- $possible ne 'case' && $possible ne 'else' &&
- $possible ne 'asm' && $possible ne '__asm__' &&
- $possible !~ /^(typedef|struct|enum)\b/) {
+ print "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
+ if ($possible !~ /(?:
+ ^(?:
+ $Modifier|
+ $Storage|
+ $Type|
+ DEFINE_\S+|
+ goto|
+ return|
+ case|
+ else|
+ asm|__asm__|
+ do
+ )$|
+ ^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b
+ )/x) {
# Check for modifiers.
$possible =~ s/\s*$Storage\s*//g;
$possible =~ s/\s*$Sparse\s*//g;
@@ -936,6 +946,8 @@ sub possible {
push(@typeList, $possible);
}
build_types();
+ } else {
+ warn "NOTPOSS: $possible ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 1);
}
}