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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2009-10-26 16:50:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-10-29 07:39:31 -0700
commit9a974fdbe3fbb4b0f6d552579dc79ac237412c61 (patch)
treebf865361b93077ae8464f459280cb86a9f414ad5 /scripts
parent1a83e175dc2c7be931a3ea9c7fb0769e6de55e90 (diff)
checkpatch: possible types -- prevent illegal modifiers being added
Prevent known non types being detected as modifiers. Ensure we do not look at any type which starts with a keyword. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 87bbb8bce9b..b43e309c38f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -997,23 +997,25 @@ sub annotate_values {
sub possible {
my ($possible, $line) = @_;
-
- print "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
- if ($possible !~ /(?:
+ my $notPermitted = qr{(?:
^(?:
$Modifier|
$Storage|
$Type|
- DEFINE_\S+|
+ DEFINE_\S+
+ )$|
+ ^(?:
goto|
return|
case|
else|
asm|__asm__|
do
- )$|
+ )(?:\s|$)|
^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b
- )/x) {
+ )}x;
+ warn "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
+ if ($possible !~ $notPermitted) {
# Check for modifiers.
$possible =~ s/\s*$Storage\s*//g;
$possible =~ s/\s*$Sparse\s*//g;
@@ -1022,8 +1024,10 @@ sub possible {
} elsif ($possible =~ /\s/) {
$possible =~ s/\s*$Type\s*//g;
for my $modifier (split(' ', $possible)) {
- warn "MODIFIER: $modifier ($possible) ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible);
- push(@modifierList, $modifier);
+ if ($modifier !~ $notPermitted) {
+ warn "MODIFIER: $modifier ($possible) ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible);
+ push(@modifierList, $modifier);
+ }
}
} else {