linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] checkpatch: false positive for commits with quote characters

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Message-ID: <1449188980.17296.18.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:29:40 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] checkpatch: false positive for commits with quote
 characters

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 16:13 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> Ping? I've hit some different false positives today on the same rule.
> I'll stop bothering to report them if no one cares.

Perhaps this:
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9f0949b..196b77b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2397,22 +2397,26 @@ sub process {
 			$long = 1 if ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{41,}/i);
 			$space = 0 if ($line =~ /\bcommit [0-9a-f]/i);
 			$case = 0 if ($line =~ /\b[Cc]ommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,40}[^A-F]/);
-			if ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)"\)/i) {
+			if ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("(.*)"\)/i) {
 				$orig_desc = $1;
 				$hasparens = 1;
+				print("here1\n");
 			} elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s*$/i &&
 				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
-				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("([^"]+)"\)/) {
+				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*\("(.*)"\)/) {
 				$orig_desc = $1;
 				$hasparens = 1;
+				print("here2\n");
 			} elsif ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("[^"]+$/i &&
 				 defined $rawlines[$linenr] &&
-				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*[^"]+"\)/) {
+				 $rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*.*"\)/) {
 				$line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\s+\("([^"]+)$/i;
 				$orig_desc = $1;
-				$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*([^"]+)"\)/;
+				$rawlines[$linenr] =~ /^\s*(.*)"\)/;
 				$orig_desc .= " " . $1;
 				$hasparens = 1;
+				print("orig_desc: <$orig_desc>\n");
+				print("here3\n");
 			}
 
 			($id, $description) = git_commit_info($orig_commit,
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