Commit e20122ff authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini
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checkpatch: handle token pasting better



The mechanism to find possible type tokens can sometimes be confused and go into an
infinite loop.  This happens for example in QEMU for a line that looks like

         uint## BITS ##_t S = _S, T = _T;                            \
         uint## BITS ##_t as, at, xs, xt, xd;                        \

Because the token pasting operator does not have a space before _t, it does not
match $notPermitted.  However, (?x) is turned on in the regular expression for
modifiers, and thus ##_t matches the empty string.  As a result, annotate_values
goes in an infinite loop.

The solution is simply to remove token pasting operators from the string before
looking for modifiers.  In the example above, the string uintBITS_t will be
evaluated as a candidate modifier.  This is not optimal, but it works as long
as people do not write things like a##s##m, and it fits nicely into sub
possible.

For a similar reason, \# should be rejected always, even if it is not
at end of line or followed by whitespace.

The same patch was sent to the Linux kernel mailing list.

Reported-by: default avatarAleksandar Markovic <amarkovic@wavecomp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 960a479f
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@@ -1132,11 +1132,10 @@ sub possible {
			case|
			else|
			asm|__asm__|
			do|
			\#|
			\#\#
			do
		)(?:\s|$)|
		^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b
		^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b|
		^\#
	    )}x;
	warn "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 2);
	if ($possible !~ $notPermitted) {
@@ -1146,7 +1145,7 @@ sub possible {
		if ($possible =~ /^\s*$/) {

		} elsif ($possible =~ /\s/) {
			$possible =~ s/\s*$Type\s*//g;
			$possible =~ s/\s*(?:$Type|\#\#)\s*//g;
			for my $modifier (split(' ', $possible)) {
				if ($modifier !~ $notPermitted) {
					warn "MODIFIER: $modifier ($possible) ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible);