This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: checkpatch-silence-perl-5.26.0-unescaped-left-brace-warnings.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8d81ae05d0176da1c54aeaed697fa34be5c5575e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:52:21 -0700 Subject: checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx> commit 8d81ae05d0176da1c54aeaed697fa34be5c5575e upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3523,7 +3523,7 @@ 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); } } @@ -3864,7 +3864,7 @@ 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); } @@ -4353,7 +4353,7 @@ sub process { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { - $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){/$1 {/; + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\)))\{/$1 {/; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/checkpatch-silence-perl-5.26.0-unescaped-left-brace-warnings.patch