Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix false positive for REPEATED_WORD warning

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 08:28 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 08:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I might add that check to the line below where
> > the repeated words are checked against long
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -3062,6 +3062,7 @@ sub process {
> >  
> >  				next if ($first ne $second);
> >  				next if ($first eq 'long');
> > +				next if ($first =~ /^$Hex$/;
> 
> oops.  with a close parenthesis added of course...

That doesn't work as $Hex expects a leading 0x.

But this does...

The negative of this approach is it would also not emit
a warning on these repeated words: (doesn't seem too bad)

$ grep -P '^[0-9a-f]{2,}$' /usr/share/dict/words
abed
accede
acceded
ace
aced
ad
add
added
baa
baaed
babe
bad
bade
be
bead
beaded
bed
bedded
bee
beef
beefed
cab
cabbed
cad
cede
ceded
dab
dabbed
dad
dead
deaf
deb
decade
decaf
deed
deeded
deface
defaced
ebb
ebbed
efface
effaced
fa
facade
face
faced
fad
fade
faded
fed
fee
feed
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fab38b493cef..79d7a4cba19e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3062,6 +3062,7 @@ sub process {
 
 				next if ($first ne $second);
 				next if ($first eq 'long');
+				next if ($first =~ /^[0-9a-f]+$/i);
 
 				if (WARN("REPEATED_WORD",
 					 "Possible repeated word: '$first'\n" . $herecurr) &&