checkpatch: handle C99 comments correctly (performance issue)
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@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fd64816..aa009a3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -356,6 +356,13 @@
$off++;
next;
}
+ if ($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 "'" || $sanitise_quote eq '"') &&
@@ -379,6 +386,8 @@
#print "c<$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, $off, 1, 'X');
} else {
@@ -386,6 +395,10 @@
}
}
+ if ($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);