The patch titled checkpatch: fix up comment checks search to scan the entire block has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.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 *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: fix up comment checks search to scan the entire block From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> We are not counting the lines in the block correctly which causes the comment scan to stop prematurly and thus miss comments which end at the end of the block. Fix this up. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1029,9 +1029,14 @@ sub process { # edge is a close comment then we must be in a comment # at context start. my $edge; - for (my $ln = $linenr + 1; $ln < ($linenr + $realcnt); $ln++) { - next if ($line =~ /^-/); - ($edge) = ($rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ m@(/\*|\*/)@); + my $cnt = $realcnt; + for (my $ln = $linenr + 1; $cnt > 0; $ln++) { + next if (defined $rawlines[$ln - 1] && + $rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ /^-/); + $cnt--; + #print "RAW<$rawlines[$ln - 1]>\n"; + ($edge) = (defined $rawlines[$ln - 1] && + $rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ m@(/\*|\*/)@); last if (defined $edge); } if (defined $edge && $edge eq '*/') { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are hugetlbfs-allocate-structures-for-reservation-tracking-outside-of-spinlocks.patch allocate-structures-for-reservation-tracking-in-hugetlbfs-outside-of-spinlocks-v2.patch checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch checkpatch-values-double-ampersand-may-be-unary.patch checkpatch-conditional-indent-labels-have-different-indent-rules.patch checkpatch-switch-indent-allow-plain-return.patch checkpatch-add-tests-for-the-attribute-matcher.patch checkpatch-____cacheline_aligned-et-al-are-modifiers.patch checkpatch-complex-macros-fix-up-extension-handling.patch checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.patch checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.patch checkpatch-reduce-warnings-for-include-of-asm-fooh-to-check-from-arch-barc.patch checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch checkpatch-report-the-real-first-line-of-all-suspect-indents.patch checkpatch-suspect-indent-skip-over-preprocessor-label-and-blank-lines.patch checkpatch-%lx-tests-should-hand-%%-as-a-literal.patch checkpatch-report-the-correct-lines-for-single-statement-blocks.patch checkpatch-perform-indent-checks-on-perl.patch checkpatch-version-022.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.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