[PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl - fix *_NOTIFIER_HEAD handling
From: Valdis KlÄtnieks
Date: Wed Aug 07 2019 - 21:36:31 EST
commit 81398d99e9de80d9dbe65dfe7aadec9497f88242
Author: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 31 14:44:23 2019 +1000
checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var definition
has a typo, resulting in a truly amazing error message:
Unescaped left brace in regex is passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?:
\n.}\s*$|
^.DEFINE_(?^x:
[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*
(?:\s*\#\#\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)*
)\(rtl_usb_probe\)|
^.DECLARE_(?^x:
[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*
(?:\s*\#\#\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)*
)\(rtl_usb_probe\)|
^.LIST_HEAD\(rtl_usb_probe\)|
^.{ <-- HERE (?^x:
[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*
(?:\s*\#\#\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)*
)}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(rtl_usb_probe\)|
(Rexexp dump continues for 236 lines total)
Fix the typo.
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5c00151cdee8..dd095d1e5a19 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3891,7 +3891,7 @@ sub process {
^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
- ^.{$Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
+ ^.${Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
^.(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type\s*\(\s*\*\s*\Q$name\E\s*\)\s*\(|
\b\Q$name\E(?:\s+$Attribute)*\s*(?:;|=|\[|\()
)/x) {