linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Fix regex for do without braces

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:19:09 +0530
From:   Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
To:     joe@...ches.com, apw@...onical.com
Cc:     lukas.bulwahn@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Fix regex for do without braces

The regular expression for detecting do without braces
also passes when checkpatch encounters the "double"
keyword. This causes wrong recalculation of $stat in
checkpatch which can cause false positives.

Fix the regex to avoid the above. Also update the comments
for the check.

Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Check word boundary on both sides of do

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8d19beca3538..64036e7eff71 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5488,9 +5488,8 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-# Check for illegal assignment in if conditional -- and check for trailing
-# statements after the conditional.
-		if ($line =~ /do\s*(?!{)/) {
+# If we have sufficient context detect and handle do without braces ({).
+		if ($line =~ /\bdo\b\s*(?!{)/) {
 			($stat, $cond, $line_nr_next, $remain_next, $off_next) =
 				ctx_statement_block($linenr, $realcnt, 0)
 					if (!defined $stat);
@@ -5511,6 +5510,9 @@ sub process {
 								$offset} = 1;
 			}
 		}
+
+# Check for illegal assignment in if conditional -- and check for trailing
+# statements after the conditional.
 		if (!defined $suppress_whiletrailers{$linenr} &&
 		    defined($stat) && defined($cond) &&
 		    $line =~ /\b(?:if|while|for)\s*\(/ && $line !~ /^.\s*#/) {
-- 
2.28.0