Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: ignore deleted lines for comment context

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 16:05 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Don't consider lines being removed by a patch as part of a comment.
> Otherwise, false "WARNING: memory barrier without comment" and similar
> issues can be reported when a comment does exist on the previous line.
> 
> For example, a change like below was previously incorrectly flagged:
> 
> 	/* matched by smp_store_release() in some_function() */
>  -	if (smp_load_acquire(&list->tail) == head))
>  +	if (smp_load_acquire(&list->tail) == head) && flags == 0)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx>

OK, but:

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -1972,7 +1972,8 @@ sub ctx_locate_comment {
>  	$current_comment = '';
>  	for (my $linenr = $first_line; $linenr < $end_line; $linenr++) {
>  		my $line = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
> -		#warn "           $line\n";
> +		#warn "LINE($linenr): $line\n";

This is a superfluous change

> +		next if ($line =~ /^-/); # ignore lines removed by patch
>  		if ($linenr == $first_line and $line =~ m@^.\s*\*@) {
>  			$in_comment = 1;
>  		}