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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:36 -0700
commit81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac (patch)
tree2b2efb18efca7c9a17d4e1f32d40f94f95101d57 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentdea33496ddc2bf1a50e9def87b4ef14709d8cb6d (diff)
checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly
Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a string. Reported by Jaswinder Singh. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.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.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5382f728739..18646f076a8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line {
$off++;
next;
}
- if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
+ if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
$sanitise_quote = '';
substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;");
$off++;