checkpatch: improve Kconfig help test

The Kconfig help test erroneously counts patch context lines as part of
the help text.

Fix that and improve the message block output.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/06c0cdc157ae1502e8e9eb3624b9ea995cf11e7a.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 49d185a26986..b01c36a15d9d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3479,47 +3479,47 @@ sub process {
 		    # Kconfig supports named choices), so use a word boundary
 		    # (\b) rather than a whitespace character (\s)
 		    $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice)\b/) {
-			my $length = 0;
-			my $cnt = $realcnt;
-			my $ln = $linenr + 1;
-			my $f;
-			my $is_start = 0;
-			my $is_end = 0;
-			for (; $cnt > 0 && defined $lines[$ln - 1]; $ln++) {
-				$f = $lines[$ln - 1];
-				$cnt-- if ($lines[$ln - 1] !~ /^-/);
-				$is_end = $lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+/;
+			my $ln = $linenr;
+			my $needs_help = 0;
+			my $has_help = 0;
+			my $help_length = 0;
+			while (defined $lines[$ln]) {
+				my $f = $lines[$ln++];
 
 				next if ($f =~ /^-/);
-				last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/);
+				last if ($f !~ /^[\+ ]/);	# !patch context
 
-				if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
-					$is_start = 1;
-				} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
-					$length = -1;
+				if ($f =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
+					$needs_help = 1;
+					next;
+				}
+				if ($f =~ /^\+\s*help\s*$/) {
+					$has_help = 1;
+					next;
 				}
 
-				$f =~ s/^.//;
-				$f =~ s/#.*//;
-				$f =~ s/^\s+//;
-				next if ($f =~ /^$/);
+				$f =~ s/^.//;	# strip patch context [+ ]
+				$f =~ s/#.*//;	# strip # directives
+				$f =~ s/^\s+//;	# strip leading blanks
+				next if ($f =~ /^$/);	# skip blank lines
 
+				# At the end of this Kconfig block:
 				# This only checks context lines in the patch
 				# and so hopefully shouldn't trigger false
 				# positives, even though some of these are
 				# common words in help texts
-				if ($f =~ /^\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice|endchoice|
-						  if|endif|menu|endmenu|source)\b/x) {
-					$is_end = 1;
+				if ($f =~ /^(?:config|menuconfig|choice|endchoice|
+					       if|endif|menu|endmenu|source)\b/x) {
 					last;
 				}
-				$length++;
+				$help_length++ if ($has_help);
 			}
-			if ($is_start && $is_end && $length < $min_conf_desc_length) {
+			if ($needs_help &&
+			    $help_length < $min_conf_desc_length) {
+				my $stat_real = get_stat_real($linenr, $ln - 1);
 				WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
-				     "please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr);
+				     "please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n");
 			}
-			#print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
 		}
 
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