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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:36 -0700
commit81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac (patch)
tree2b2efb18efca7c9a17d4e1f32d40f94f95101d57 /scripts
parentdea33496ddc2bf1a50e9def87b4ef14709d8cb6d (diff)
downloadlinux-81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac.tar.gz
checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly
Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a
string.  Reported by Jaswinder Singh.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
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.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5382f7287397..18646f076a84 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line {
 			$off++;
 			next;
 		}
-		if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
+		if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
 			$sanitise_quote = '';
 			substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;");
 			$off++;