The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve the SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve the SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT test The current SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT test does not recognize several defective code style defects where code following a logical test is inappropriately indented. Before this patch, for code like: if (foo) bar(); checkpatch would not emit a warning. Improve the test to warn when code after a logical test has the same indentation as the logical test. Perform the same indentation test for "else" blocks too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/df2374b68c4a68af2b7ef08afe486584811f610a.1493683942.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3354,7 +3354,7 @@ sub process { } # Check relative indent for conditionals and blocks. - if ($line =~ /\b(?:(?:if|while|for|(?:[a-z_]+|)for_each[a-z_]+)\s*\(|do\b)/ && $line !~ /^.\s*#/ && $line !~ /\}\s*while\s*/) { + if ($line =~ /\b(?:(?:if|while|for|(?:[a-z_]+|)for_each[a-z_]+)\s*\(|(?:do|else)\b)/ && $line !~ /^.\s*#/ && $line !~ /\}\s*while\s*/) { ($stat, $cond, $line_nr_next, $remain_next, $off_next) = ctx_statement_block($linenr, $realcnt, 0) if (!defined $stat); @@ -3446,6 +3446,8 @@ sub process { if ($check && $s ne '' && (($sindent % 8) != 0 || ($sindent < $indent) || + ($sindent == $indent && + ($s !~ /^\s*(?:\}|\{|else\b)/)) || ($sindent > $indent + 8))) { WARN("SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT", "suspect code indent for conditional statements ($indent, $sindent)\n" . $herecurr . "$stat_real\n"); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-add-ability-to-find-bad-uses-of-vsprintf-%pfoo-extensions.patch checkpatch-improve-embedded_function_name-test.patch checkpatch-allow-space-leading-blank-lines-in-email-headers.patch checkpatch-avoid-suggesting-struct-definitions-should-be-const.patch checkpatch-improve-multistatement_macro_use_do_while-test.patch checkpatch-clarify-the-embedded_function_name-message.patch checkpatch-improve-kalloc-with-multiplication-and-sizeof-test.patch checkpatch-improve-the-embedded-function-name-test-for-patch-contexts.patch checkpatch-improve-the-suspect_code_indent-test.patch treewide-correct-diffrent-and-banlance-typos.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html