The patch titled checkpatch: ensure we do not collapse bracketed sections into constants has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants.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: ensure we do not collapse bracketed sections into constants From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> When determining if a return () sequence is a function style bracketing we simplify the expression one bracket at a time replacing each with a constant. However this can trigger a false merge with expressions as below: return (foo)0; Prevent this false merging. Reported-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2183,15 +2183,16 @@ sub process { my $value = $2; # Flatten any parentheses - $value =~ s/\)\(/\) \(/g; + $value =~ s/\(/ \(/g; + $value =~ s/\)/\) /g; while ($value =~ s/\[[^\{\}]*\]/1/ || $value !~ /(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s* $Compare\s* (?:$Ident|-?$Constant)/x && $value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) { } - - if ($value =~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/) { +#print "value<$value>\n"; + if ($value =~ /^\s*(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*$/) { ERROR("return is not a function, parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr); } elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces.patch checkpatch-types-may-sit-on-a-line-on-their-own.patch checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants.patch checkpatch-handle-casts-better-fixing-false-categorisation-of-as-binary.patch checkpatch-returning-errno-typically-should-be-negative.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-space-after-struct-union-and-enum.patch checkpatch-simplify-and-consolidate-missing-space-after-checks.patch checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help.patch checkpatch-check-for-incorrect-permissions.patch checkpatch-add-additional-attribute-defines.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-clean-up-structure-definition-macro-handline.patch checkpatch-handle-export_symbol-for-device_attr-and-similar.patch checkpatch-statement-block-context-analyser-should-look-at-sanitised-lines.patch checkpatch-version-031.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