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[4.19,237/346] checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace

Message ID 20201228124931.229690810@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Dec. 28, 2020, 12:49 p.m. UTC 
From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 03f4935135b9efeb780b970ba023c201f81cf4e6 ]

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201115202928.81955-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Fixes: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7eb944cbbaeab..2e31ec1378219 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4059,7 +4059,7 @@  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));