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 --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 8835a4775d205..67a6a8a9b6722 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3580,7 +3580,7 @@ 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));