Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: fix naked sscanf false positives

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On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 13:24 -0800, Kevin Wern wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > It's a single line sscanf vs multi-line sscanf issue
> > 
> > $line works on
> >         ret = sscanf(buf, &foo, &bar);
> > 
> > $stat works on that and
> >         ret = sscanf(buf,
> >                      &foo,
> >                      &bar);
> > 
> 
> Ah, ok. I dont think having just the ending paren will work though
> because the
> paren can be on the next line, so the pre-patch statement is most
> correct.
> What we should do, then, is something like:

Not really.

That'd only find an additional
	sscanf
		(buf,
		 foo,
		 bar);

And that's quite unlikely.

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