checkpatch: fix multiple const * types
authorAntonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 03:11:04 +0000 (20:11 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:43:43 +0000 (10:43 -0700)
commit7b18496cbc9af07f5dfbb1ce56ea839344061b54
treebba300b15ae83726bb84813bc8794d383dd99e68
parent342d3d2f136837cbe9aaee368dbea39865b9c0f4
checkpatch: fix multiple const * types

Commit 1574a29f8e76 ("checkpatch: allow multiple const * types") claims to
support repetition of pattern "const *", but it actually allows only one
extra instance.

Check the following lines
int a(char const * const x[]);
int b(char const * const *x);
int c(char const * const * const x[]);
int d(char const * const * const *x);

with command

./scripts/checkpatch.pl --show-types -f filename

to find that only the first line passes the test, while a warning
is triggered by the other 3 lines:

WARNING:FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS: function definition argument
'char const * const' should also have an identifier name

The reason is that the pattern match halts at the second asterisk in the
line, thus the remaining text starting with asterisk fails to match a
valid name for a variable.

Fixed by replacing "?" (Match 1 or 0 times) with "{0,4}" (Match no more
than 4 times) in the regular expression.  Fix also the similar test for
types in unusual order.

Fixes: 1574a29f8e76 ("checkpatch: allow multiple const * types")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122163852.124417-1-borneo.antonio@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl