linux-kernel - checkpatch: Avoid some false positives for TABSTOP declaration test

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:19 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Subject: checkpatch: Avoid some false positives for TABSTOP declaration test

Using an open bracket after what seems to be a declaration
can also be a function definition and declaration argument
line continuation so remove the open bracket from the
possible declaration/definition matching.

e.g.:
	int foobar(int a;
		   int *b[]);

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d2464058ab5d..294f03fe25ea 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3020,7 +3020,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # check indentation starts on a tab stop
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
-		    $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=\[])/) {
+		    $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=])/) {
 			my $indent = length($1);
 			if ($indent % 8) {
 				if (WARN("TABSTOP",