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[50/95] checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace

Message ID 20201216044502.Uf8uWR3sf%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/95] mm: fix a race on nr_swap_pages | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Dec. 16, 2020, 4:45 a.m. UTC
From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Subject: 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: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-unescaped-left-brace
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -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));