From d2172eb5bd4b7d06577113ec40635083619ca54a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: possible modifiers are not being correctly matched Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below we are not correctly matching it as a type. Fix the declaration. static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order) { } Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 077a2ca33043..53ec3946670d 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -168,12 +168,11 @@ our @modifierList = ( ); sub build_types { - my $mods = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)"; - my $all = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)"; + my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)"; + my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)"; $Modifier = qr{(?:$Attribute|$Sparse|$mods)}; $NonptrType = qr{ - (?:const\s+)? - (?:$mods\s+)? + (?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)* (?: (?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)| (?:${all}\b)