From e01886ada28741d7cb2cfb3224e9caccfbc1a2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:10:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix 'return is not a function' square bracket handling We are incorrectly matching square brackets '[' and ']' leading to false positives on more complex functions as below: return (dt3155_fbuffer[m]->ready_head - dt3155_fbuffer[m]->ready_len + dt3155_fbuffer[m]->nbuffers)% (dt3155_fbuffer[m]->nbuffers); Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index ca6d0fb229f2..5e3f4191f959 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2609,7 +2609,7 @@ sub process { # Flatten any parentheses $value =~ s/\(/ \(/g; $value =~ s/\)/\) /g; - while ($value =~ s/\[[^\{\}]*\]/1/ || + while ($value =~ s/\[[^\[\]]*\]/1/ || $value !~ /(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s* $Compare\s* (?:$Ident|-?$Constant)/x && -- 2.20.1