[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix unescaped left brace

Dwaipayan Ray dwaipayanray1 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 17:16:26 UTC 2020


There is an unescaped left brace in a regex in OPEN_BRACE
check. This throws a runtime error when checkpatch is run
with --fix flag and the OPEN_BRACE check is executed.

Fix it by escaping the left brace.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1 at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2749f32dffe9..0da6422cd0fd 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4505,7 +4505,7 @@ sub process {
 			    $fix) {
 				fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);
 				my $fixed_line = $rawline;
-				$fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*){(.*)$/;
+				$fixed_line =~ /(^..*$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\)\s*)\{(.*)$/;
 				my $line1 = $1;
 				my $line2 = $2;
 				fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, ltrim($line1));
-- 
2.27.0



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