From 81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a string. Reported by Jaswinder Singh. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Jaswinder Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5382f7287397..18646f076a84 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line { $off++; next; } - if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') { + if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') { $sanitise_quote = ''; substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;"); $off++;