checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types,
for example:
void * __user * __user bar;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5ffc940..92d1371 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@
# * goes on variable not on type
# (char*[ const])
- if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+ if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) {
my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
# Should start with a space.
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@
if ($from ne $to) {
ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" . $herecurr);
}
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+ } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) {
my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
# Should start with a space.
