From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: fix macro argument reuse test Multiple line macro definitions where the arguments are separated by line continuations can cause checkpatch to emit invalid syntax regex tests. This can occur when a single argument is modified in a part of a patch. For example: (to not add a diff in the commit message) $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --git db023296f0115d2fe01fdabad54678f2b806da23 Unterminated \g... pattern in regex; <very long regex omitted> And, the test does not work correctly when these arguments are all new as the initial patch line addition "+" is used in the argument name. Fix this by stripping the line continuations and any "+" from the list of arguments. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/86cdb43a4db70670c102020093f7fb4eb3003e01.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-macro-argument-reuse-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4967,6 +4967,7 @@ sub process { if (defined $define_args && $define_args ne "") { $define_args = substr($define_args, 1, length($define_args) - 2); $define_args =~ s/\s*//g; + $define_args =~ s/\\\+?//g; @def_args = split(",", $define_args); } _
