checkpatch: allow parentheses on return handle array values
When we allow return to have surrounding parentheses when containing
comparison operators we are not correctly handling the case where the
values contain array sufffixes. Squash them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1d7924a..696196e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2016,7 +2016,11 @@
# Flatten any parentheses
$value =~ s/\)\(/\) \(/g;
- while ($value !~ /(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*$Compare\s*(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)/ && $value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) {
+ while ($value =~ s/\[[^\{\}]*\]/1/ ||
+ $value !~ /(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*
+ $Compare\s*
+ (?:$Ident|-?$Constant)/x &&
+ $value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) {
}
if ($value =~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/) {