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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:36 -0700
commit306708547b566ef6a0ccd470c84568807571885c (patch)
tree028c2ab4d3abefe272cf6ad02e11f10474d0b667 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent6f779c18ca74358b6ac8eb8f5d502843fa92be4e (diff)
checkpatch: ensure we only apply checks to the lines within hunks
We should only apply source checks to lines within hunks. Checks which are anchored in the context may falsly trigger in the commentory. Ensure they only match within valid hunk lines. 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2e513fdf304..fe4553c070b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ sub process {
$linenr++;
my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
+ my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0);
#extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied
if ($line=~/^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@/) {
@@ -1238,8 +1239,8 @@ sub process {
ERROR("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
}
-#ignore lines being removed
- if ($line=~/^-/) {next;}
+# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed
+ next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);
#trailing whitespace
if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) {