checkpatch: ensure we only apply checks to the lines within hunks

We should only apply source checks to lines within hunks. Checks which are anchored in the context may falsly trigger in the commentory. Ensure they only match within valid hunk lines. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Oct 16, 2008 · 3067085 · 3067085
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commit 3067085
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ sub process {
 		$linenr++;
 
 		my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
+		my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0);
 
 #extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied
 		if ($line=~/^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@/) {
@@ -1238,8 +1239,8 @@ sub process {
 			ERROR("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
 		}
 
-#ignore lines being removed
-		if ($line=~/^-/) {next;}
+# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed
+		next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);
 
 #trailing whitespace
 		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) {