From 81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:26 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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++;
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