From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:02:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly
X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81bc0e020232a1e1e7010376382bb59ca82927ac;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git

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 <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

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++;