[PATCH] checkpatch: avoid false positive closing bracket with initializers

From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelÃn
Date: Mon Oct 23 2017 - 09:06:31 EST


when multiple closing brackets are being used for an universal zero
intializer as in (for example):

struct timespec tv[10] = {{0}};

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelÃn <carenas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8b80bac055e4..fe271697a2a8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4423,7 +4423,7 @@ sub process {

# closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
# on the line
- if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
+ if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|}|\)))\S/) {
if (ERROR("SPACING",
"space required after that close brace '}'\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
--
2.14.2