From 99423c2065b62fee41cdbd8da7e63bf1f8f9e9b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:50:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching In the following code, union thread_union init_thread_union __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = { INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) }; There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the following, union thread_union init_thread_union __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = { INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) }; However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't correctly evaluate the "__attribute__". It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style attribute when we find the open brace. Relax the test so we do not need to check the __attribute__. Reported-by: Daniel Walker Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index cb2dac37aaff..ba105a848396 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1669,8 +1669,8 @@ sub process { } # check for initialisation to aggregates open brace on the next line - if ($prevline =~ /$Declare\s*$Ident\s*=\s*$/ && - $line =~ /^.\s*{/) { + if ($line =~ /^.\s*{/ && + $prevline =~ /(?:^|[^=])=\s*$/) { ERROR("that open brace { should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev); }