The patch titled checkpatch: handle C99 comments correctly (performance issue) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-handle-c99-comments-correctly-performance-issue.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: handle C99 comments correctly (performance issue) From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> This fixes the sanitation process in checkpatch.pl so that it blocks out the text after a C99 style comment the same way it does with block style comments. This prevents the text from getting processed as regular code. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-c99-comments-correctly-performance-issue scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-c99-comments-correctly-performance-issue +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -356,6 +356,13 @@ sub sanitise_line { $off++; next; } + if ($sanitise_quote eq '' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '//') { + $sanitise_quote = '//'; + + substr($res, $off, 2, $sanitise_quote); + $off++; + next; + } # A \ in a string means ignore the next character. if (($sanitise_quote eq "'" || $sanitise_quote eq '"') && @@ -379,6 +386,8 @@ sub sanitise_line { #print "c<$c> SQ<$sanitise_quote>\n"; if ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote eq '*/' && $c ne "\t") { substr($res, $off, 1, $;); + } elsif ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote eq '//' && $c ne "\t") { + substr($res, $off, 1, $;); } elsif ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote && $c ne "\t") { substr($res, $off, 1, 'X'); } else { @@ -386,6 +395,10 @@ sub sanitise_line { } } + if ($sanitise_quote eq '//') { + $sanitise_quote = ''; + } + # The pathname on a #include may be surrounded by '<' and '>'. if ($res =~ /^.\s*\#\s*include\s+\<(.*)\>/) { my $clean = 'X' x length($1); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch checkpatch-handle-c99-comments-correctly-performance-issue.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