Re: False positive of "open brace '{' following function declarations" in checkpatch.pl

From: Song Liu
Date: Thu Feb 01 2018 - 18:22:25 EST


Thanks Joe! This patch eliminates the ERROR.

Song

> On Feb 1, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 22:50 +0000, Song Liu wrote:
>> Hi Andy and Joe,
>>
>> I am getting the following ERROR from check patch.pl:
>>
>> ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line
>> #235: FILE: tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_stacktrace_map_build_id_offset.c:11:
>> +struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") control_map = {
>>
>>
>> I guess it treats SEC("maps") as a function. But it is actually struct:
>>
>> struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") control_map = {
>> .type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY,
>> .key_size = sizeof(__u32),
>> .value_size = sizeof(__u32),
>> .max_entries = 1,
>> };
>
> This seems to work better:
> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 78e7a310af46..b6a0da9c7de7 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3919,8 +3919,10 @@ sub process {
>
> # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
> # or if closed on same line
> - if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s*{/) and
> - !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s\{/) and !($line=~/}/)) {
> + if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
> + ($sline =~ /$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{/) &&
> + !($sline =~ /\#\s*define\b.*do\s*\{/) &&
> + $sline !~ /}/) {
> if (ERROR("OPEN_BRACE",
> "open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line\n" . $herecurr) &&
> $fix) {
>