checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers

We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types, for example: void * __user * __user bar; Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
redpig · Feb 28, 2009 · 00ef4ec · 00ef4ec
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commit 00ef4ec
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # * goes on variable not on type
 		# (char*[ const])
-		if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+		if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) {
 			my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
 
 			# Should start with a space.
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ sub process {
 			if ($from ne $to) {
 				ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" .  $herecurr);
 			}
-		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) {
 			my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
 
 			# Should start with a space.