Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] checkpatch: Test SYMBOLIC_PERMS multiple times per line | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:19:04 -0700 |
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There are occasions where symbolic perms are used in a ternary like
return (channel == 0) ? S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR : S_IRUGO;
The current test will find the first use "S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR" but not the second use "S_IRUGO" on the same line.
Improve the test to look for all instances on a line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5fe361e1ed5e..d2464002bb40 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6429,7 +6429,7 @@ sub process { } # check for uses of S_<PERMS> that could be octal for readability - if ($line =~ /\b($multi_mode_perms_string_search)\b/) { + while ($line =~ m{\b($multi_mode_perms_string_search)\b}g) { my $oval = $1; my $octal = perms_to_octal($oval); if (WARN("SYMBOLIC_PERMS",
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