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Subject[PATCH] checkpatch.pl: fix CAST detection to not screw with parens handling
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Casts have to be handled after the last type that is followed by an
opening parenthesis is handled.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:57:36 +0100
Audun Hoem <audun.hoem@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have stumbled about a bug in checkpatch.pl while working on some
> code in drivers/staging. It seems to get confused when confronted with
> asterisks. For example, this snippe:
>
> kmalloc(sizeof(struct alphatrack_ocmd) * true_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Here the asterisk is in it's binary form, obviously, and performs a
> multiplication, however checkpatch reports this:
>
> drivers/staging/frontier/alphatrack.c:772: ERROR: space prohibited
> after that '*' (ctx:WxW)
>
> So it's obviously thinking it's the unary operator, which should only
> be preceded by a variable name or another unary operator such as ++.

Reported-By: Audun Hoem <audun.hoem@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 90b54d4..c1cbb09 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -859,10 +859,6 @@ sub annotate_values {
$av_preprocessor = 0;
}

- } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/) {
- print "CAST($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
- push(@av_paren_type, $type);
- $type = 'C';

} elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\(|\s*$)/) {
print "DECLARE($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
@@ -963,6 +959,13 @@ sub annotate_values {
$type = 'V';
$av_pending = 'V';

+ } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/) {
+ #casts handled after last type that opens a brace
+ #is handled, else it screws up the parens handling
+ print "CAST($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
+ push(@av_paren_type, $type);
+ $type = 'C';
+
} elsif ($cur =~ /^($Ident\s*):(?:\s*\d+\s*(,|=|;))?/) {
if (defined $2 && $type eq 'C' || $type eq 'T') {
$av_pend_colon = 'B';
--
1.7.3.1


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