The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace.patch
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From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace
+++ a/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));
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-add-new-exception-to-repeated-word-check.patch
checkpatch-extend-attributes-check-to-handle-more-patterns.patch
checkpatch-improve-email-parsing.patch
checkpatch-fix-spelling-errors-and-remove-repeated-word.patch
checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace.patch
