Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix unescaped left brace

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 19:43 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 01:59 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > There is an unescaped left brace in a regex in OPEN_BRACE
> > check. This throws a runtime error when checkpatch is run
> > with --fix flag and the OPEN_BRACE check is executed.
> > 
> > Fix it by escaping the left brace.
> > 
> > Fixes: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
> > Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Dwaipayan.
> 
> Obviously that code path hasn't been tested in awhile.
> 
> I think the notice to require an escape for a { was added back in
> perl 5.16 or so.

Just fyi:  it seems the requirement was actually implemented in perl 5.22
and this code predates the release of perl 5.22

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5220delta.pod