From 306708547b566ef6a0ccd470c84568807571885c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: ensure we only apply checks to the lines within
 hunks

We should only apply source checks to lines within hunks.  Checks which
are anchored in the context may falsly trigger in the commentory.  Ensure
they only match within valid hunk lines.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2e513fdf3043..fe4553c070b1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ sub process {
 		$linenr++;
 
 		my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
+		my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0);
 
 #extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied
 		if ($line=~/^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@/) {
@@ -1238,8 +1239,8 @@ sub process {
 			ERROR("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
 		}
 
-#ignore lines being removed
-		if ($line=~/^-/) {next;}
+# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed
+		next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);
 
 #trailing whitespace
 		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) {