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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2015-06-10 11:14:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-10 16:43:43 -0700
commit5129e87cb81996d4d7e8f5a86b5355c5f2d0383b (patch)
tree27031787fd91dc2194c9186ef2f4e414841f91b7 /scripts
parentd7ad41a1c498729b7584c257710b1b437a0c1470 (diff)
downloadlinux-5129e87cb81996d4d7e8f5a86b5355c5f2d0383b.tar.gz
checkpatch: fix "GLOBAL_INITIALISERS" test
Commit d5e616fc1c1d ("checkpatch: add a few more --fix corrections")
broke the GLOBAL_INITIALISERS test with bad parentheses and optional
leading spaces.

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Bandan Das <bsd@makefile.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 89b1df4e72ab..c5ec977b9c37 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3169,12 +3169,12 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for global initialisers.
-		if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
+		if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*(?:0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
 			if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
 				  "do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
 				      $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
-				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/($Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/$1;/;
+				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/(^.$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*)\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/$1;/;
 			}
 		}
 # check for static initialisers.