checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching
In the following code,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };
There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,
union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};
However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".
It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace. Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
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 cb2dac3..ba105a8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1669,8 +1669,8 @@
}
# check for initialisation to aggregates open brace on the next line
- if ($prevline =~ /$Declare\s*$Ident\s*=\s*$/ &&
- $line =~ /^.\s*{/) {
+ if ($line =~ /^.\s*{/ &&
+ $prevline =~ /(?:^|[^=])=\s*$/) {
ERROR("that open brace { should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev);
}
