checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts

This check erroneously flags cases like the one in my recent printk
enumeration patch[0], where the spaces are syntactic, and `section:' vs.
`section :' is syntactically important:

    ERROR: space prohibited before that ':' (ctx:WxW)
    #258: FILE: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:314:
    +       .printk_fmts : AT(ADDR(.printk_fmts) - LOAD_OFFSET) {

0: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1375749/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YBwhqsc2TIVeid3t@chrisdown.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YB6UsjCOy1qrrlSD@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chris Down 2021-02-25 17:22:04 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 58f02267f0
commit 263afd39c0
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@ -5044,7 +5044,7 @@ sub process {
# A colon needs no spaces before when it is
# terminating a case value or a label.
} elsif ($opv eq ':C' || $opv eq ':L') {
if ($ctx =~ /Wx./) {
if ($ctx =~ /Wx./ and $realfile !~ m@.*\.lds\.h$@) {
if (ERROR("SPACING",
"space prohibited before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {
$good = rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]);