Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for .byte-spelled insn opcodes documentation on x86

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 08:27:20AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Then this could use:
> 
> /"\s*\.byte\s+(?:0x[0-9a-fA-F]{1,2}\s*,\s*){2,4}/

Yes, this is getting close.

I've tweaked it a bit to:

'/\s*\.byte\s+(?:0x[0-9a-f]{1,2}[\s,]*){2,}/i'

which assumes at least 2 opcode bytes; upper limit can be more than 4.
It still has some false positives in crypto but I'd say that's good
enough. I'll play more with it later.

Thx.

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