[PATCH] checkpatch: Fix "GLOBAL_INITIALISERS" test

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri May 29 2015 - 05:12:30 EST


commit d5e616fc1c1d ("checkpatch: add a few more --fix corrections")
broke the GLOBAL_INITIALISERS test with bad parentheses and optional
leading spaces.

Fix it.

Reported-by: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 23:41 -0400, Bandan Das wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hi Bandan.

> Sorry, I am very Perl illiterate but I was deliberately trying to hit the
> "do not initialize globals" message from checkpatch.pl and can't seem to.
>
> Looking at the corresponding regexp, it seems the correct pattern should be:
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3169,7 +3169,7 @@ sub process {
> }
>
> # check for global initialisers.
> - if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
> + if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier)*)\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
> if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
> "do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
> $herecurr) &&
>
> which matches zero or more of $Modifier followed by zero or more of a space.
> Or am I missing something ?

No, you're right, thanks, but the proper fix is a bit more
than that and it's below.

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4650c04..e46414d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3176,12 +3176,12 @@ sub process {
}

# check for global initialisers.
- if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
+ if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*(?:0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
"do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
$herecurr) &&
$fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/($Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/$1;/;
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/(^.$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*)\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/$1;/;
}
}
# check for static initialisers.



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