linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/16] checkpatch: ensure we do not collapse bracketed sections into constants

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Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:46:37 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/16] checkpatch: ensure we do not collapse bracketed sections into constants

When determining if a return () sequence is a function style bracketing
we simplify the expression one bracket at a time replacing each with a
constant.  However this can trigger a false merge with expressions as
below:

	return (foo)0;

Prevent this false merging.

Reported-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 32d6a23..8d010ac 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2183,15 +2183,16 @@ sub process {
 			my $value = $2;
 
 			# Flatten any parentheses
-			$value =~ s/\)\(/\) \(/g;
+			$value =~ s/\(/ \(/g;
+			$value =~ s/\)/\) /g;
 			while ($value =~ s/\[[^\{\}]*\]/1/ ||
 			       $value !~ /(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*
 					     $Compare\s*
 					     (?:$Ident|-?$Constant)/x &&
 			       $value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) {
 			}
-
-			if ($value =~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/) {
+#print "value<$value>\n";
+			if ($value =~ /^\s*(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*$/) {
 				ERROR("return is not a function, parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr);
 
 			} elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) {
-- 
1.7.0.4

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