Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: dvb-usb: Fix use-after-free access

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Feb 01 2021 - 03:23:13 EST


On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:04:56 +0100,
Sean Young wrote:
>
> Hi Takashi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 04:47:44PM +0100, Robert Foss wrote:
> > Hey Takashi,
> >
> > This patch is generating a checkpatch warning, but I think it is
> > spurious and can be ignored.
>
> The checkpatch warning isn't superious and should really be corrected.

It's case-by-case, checkpatch is no bible by itself. In this
particular case, it was rather a false-positive of checkpatch: the
commit reference including a line-break.

This issue has been always annoying and I wish this will be dropped
from checkpatch in near future...


thanks,

Takashi