Commit 89a88353 authored Jan 10, 2012 by Andy Whitcroft Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 10, 2012

checkpatch: ## is not a valid modifier



Inserting a # into the modifiers list will incorrectly add the null string
to the modifiers list, leading to an infinite loop.  As neither of these
is a valid modifier form simply ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent d7c76ba7

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+3 −1

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		@@ -1224,7 +1224,9 @@ sub possible {
		case\|
		else\|
		asm\|__asm__\|
		do
		do\|
		\#\|
		\#\#\|
		)(?:\s\|$)\|
		^(?:typedef\|struct\|enum)\b
		)}x;

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1224,7 +1224,9 @@ sub possible {
		case\|
		else\|
		asm\|__asm__\|
		do
		do\|
		\#\|
		\#\#\|
		)(?:\s\|$)\|
		^(?:typedef\|struct\|enum)\b
		)}x;