checkpatch: add [] to type extensions

Add [] to a type extensions.  Fixes false positives on:

    .attrs = (struct attribute *[]) {

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ec58d3152e7180752db815941466e72bbcc12915..07d718415c5c698196c72e7fd0a235ac13509f64 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ sub build_types {
                  }x;
        $Type   = qr{
                        $NonptrType
-                       (?:[\s\*]+\s*const|[\s\*]+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
+                       (?:(?:\s|\*|\[\])+\s*const|(?:\s|\*|\[\])+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
                        (?:\s+$Inline|\s+$Modifier)*
                  }x;
        $Declare        = qr{(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type};