[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add fix option for LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS

[Aditya Srivastava]

Currently, checkpatch warns if logical continuations are placed at the
start of a line and not at the end of previous line.

E.g., running checkpatch on commit 3485507fc272 ("staging:
bcm2835-camera: Reduce length of enum names") reports:

CHECK:LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS: Logical continuations should be on the
previous line
+	if (!ret
+	    && camera_port ==

Provide a simple fix by adding logical operator at the end of previous
line and removing from current line, if both the lines are additions
(ie start with '+')

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com>
---
changes in v2: quote $operator at substitution

changes in v3: add a check for previous line ending with comment;
If so, insert $operator at the last non-comment, non-whitespace char of the previous line

changes in v4: improve the matching mechanism by matching line termination at comment or white space;
insert the operator before comments (if any) separated by a whitespace;
append the comment and its pre-whitespace after the inserted operator (if comment was present),
ie if no comment was present nothing will be inserted after the operator

changes in v5: improve regex for comment and line end with '$;'

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5b1a5a65e69a..708a56f31466 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3553,8 +3553,17 @@ sub process {
 
 # check for && or || at the start of a line
 		if ($rawline =~ /^\+\s*(&&|\|\|)/) {
-			CHK("LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS",
-			    "Logical continuations should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev);
+			my $operator = $1;
+			if (CHK("LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS",
+				"Logical continuations should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev) &&
+			    $fix && $prevrawline =~ /^\+/) {
+				# add logical operator to the previous line, remove from current line
+				if ($prevline =~ /[\s$;]*$/) {
+					my $line_end = substr($prevrawline, $-[0]);
+					$fixed[$fixlinenr - 1] =~ s/\Q$line_end\E/ $operator$line_end/;
+				}
+				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\Q$operator\E\s*//;
+			}
 		}
 
 # check indentation starts on a tab stop
-- 
2.17.1