[PATCH 4.4 086/132] checkpatch: fix unescaped left brace

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 28 2020 - 07:56:19 EST


From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>

[ 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@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8d1824780f2f ("checkpatch: add --fix option for a couple OPEN_BRACE misuses")
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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));
--
2.27.0