From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings As of perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) some new warnings have occurred when running checkpatch. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3544. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3885. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){ <-- HERE / at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 4374. It seems perfectly reasonable to do as the warning suggests and simply escape the left brace in these three locations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607060135.17384-1-cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-silence-perl-5260-unescaped-left-brace-warnings scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-silence-perl-5260-unescaped-left-brace-warnings +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3555,7 +3555,7 @@ sub process { $fixedline =~ s/\s*=\s*$/ = {/; fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline); $fixedline = $line; - $fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*){\s*/$1/; + $fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*)\{\s*/$1/; fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline); } } @@ -3896,7 +3896,7 @@ sub process { my $fixedline = rtrim($prevrawline) . " {"; fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline); $fixedline = $rawline; - $fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*){\s*/$1\t/; + $fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*)\{\s*/$1\t/; if ($fixedline !~ /^\+\s*$/) { fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline); } @@ -4385,7 +4385,7 @@ sub process { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { - $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){/$1 {/; + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\)))\{/$1 {/; } } _