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authorDwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>2020-12-16 07:45:02 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-16 09:46:17 +0300
commit03f4935135b9efeb780b970ba023c201f81cf4e6 (patch)
treecd98b76c9e3ad20c8f42c55ea5785c791cfa426a /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent27b379af61025e32a9baf3a33e939941682693ba (diff)
downloadlinux-03f4935135b9efeb780b970ba023c201f81cf4e6.tar.xz
checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace
There is an unescaped left brace in a regex in OPEN_BRACE check. This throws a runtime error when checkpatch is run with --fix flag and the OPEN_BRACE check is executed. Fix it by escaping the left brace. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201115202928.81955-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com Fixes: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses") Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 176ea2c189b8..fdfd5ec09be6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4505,7 +4505,7 @@ sub process {
$fix) {
fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);
my $fixed_line = $rawline;
- $fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*){(.*)$/;
+ $fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*)\{(.*)$/;
my $line1 = $1;
my $line2 = $2;
fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, ltrim($line1));