commit 1a47005dd5aa ("checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var definition") causes the following warning when run on some patches: Unescaped left brace in regex is passed through in regex; marked by < --HERE in m/(?: ... [238 lines of appalling perl output, mercifully not included] ... )/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3889. This is broken, so revert it until a better solution is found. Fixes: 1a47005dd5aa ("checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var definition") Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5c00151cdee8..284eb4bd84aa 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3891,7 +3891,6 @@ sub process { ^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)| ^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)| ^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)| - ^.{$Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)| ^.(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type\s*\(\s*\*\s*\Q$name\E\s*\)\s*\(| \b\Q$name\E(?:\s+$Attribute)*\s*(?:;|=|\[|\() )/x) { -- 2.22.1