checkpatch: possible modifiers are not being correctly matched
Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below
we are not correctly matching it as a type. Fix the declaration.
static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order)
{
}
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 077a2ca..53ec394 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -168,12 +168,11 @@
);
sub build_types {
- my $mods = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
- my $all = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
+ my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
+ my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
$Modifier = qr{(?:$Attribute|$Sparse|$mods)};
$NonptrType = qr{
- (?:const\s+)?
- (?:$mods\s+)?
+ (?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
(?:
(?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
(?:${all}\b)