Commit 03f49351 authored by Dwaipayan Ray's avatar Dwaipayan Ray Committed by Linus Torvalds
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checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace 

There is an unescaped left brace in a regex in OPEN_BRACE check.  This
throws a runtime error when checkpatch is run with --fix flag and the
OPEN_BRACE check is executed.

Fix it by escaping the left brace.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201115202928.81955-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com


Fixes: 8d182478 ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 27b379af

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+1 −1
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@@ -4505,7 +4505,7 @@ sub process { 
			    $fix) {

				fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);

				my $fixed_line = $rawline;

				$fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*){(.*)$/;

				$fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*)\{(.*)$/;

				my $line1 = $1;

				my $line2 = $2;

				fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, ltrim($line1));