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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2013-04-17 15:58:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-17 16:10:44 -0700
commite942e2c3f7e093fc8756dd8b47c93a821c09429f (patch)
tree78e410a09d5b9d0f7e7129bfe998658863cfaf16 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentd875cf08391a811703f8adf39db598cac9ece6a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-e942e2c3f7e093fc8756dd8b47c93a821c09429f.tar.gz
checkpatch: fix stringification macro defect
Fix checkpatch misreporting defect with stringification macros

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
  #27: FILE: arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h:41:
  +#define ___to_string(X) #X

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Vincent Stehlé <v-stehle@ti.com>
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.pl1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b28cc384a5bc..4de4bc48493b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3016,6 +3016,7 @@ sub process {
 			    $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ &&					# character constants
 			    $dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
 			    $dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ &&				# .foo =
+			    $dstat !~ /^(?:\#\s*$Ident|\#\s*$Constant)\s*$/ &&		# stringification #foo
 			    $dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ &&	# do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)
 			    $dstat !~ /^for\s*$Constant$/ &&				# for (...)
 			    $dstat !~ /^for\s*$Constant\s+(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ &&	# for (...) bar()