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| author | Mrinal Pandey <mrinalmni@gmail.com> | 2020-09-05 02:35:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-09-05 22:14:29 +0300 |
| commit | 13e45417cedbfc44b1926124b1846f5ee8c6ba4a (patch) | |
| tree | bfc3670e1d5bb55b55ef0621d7217fe3548e3eb8 /scripts | |
| parent | b0daa2c73f3a8ab9183a9d298495b583b6c1bd19 (diff) | |
| download | linux-13e45417cedbfc44b1926124b1846f5ee8c6ba4a.tar.xz | |
checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... )
The usage of "capture group (...)" in the immediate condition after `&&`
results in `$1` being uninitialized. This issues a warning "Use of
uninitialized value $1 in regexp compilation at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
line 2638".
I noticed this bug while running checkpatch on the set of commits from
v5.7 to v5.8-rc1 of the kernel on the commits with a diff content in
their commit message.
This bug was introduced in the script by commit e518e9a59ec3
("checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog"). It
has been in the script since then.
The author intended to store the match made by capture group in variable
`$1`. This should have contained the name of the file as `[\w/]+`
matched. However, this couldn't be accomplished due to usage of capture
group and `$1` in the same regular expression.
Fix this by placing the capture group in the condition before `&&`.
Thus, `$1` can be initialized to the text that capture group matches
thereby setting it to the desired and required value.
Fixes: e518e9a59ec3 ("checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog")
Signed-off-by: Mrinal Pandey <mrinalmni@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714032352.f476hanaj2dlmiot@mrinalpandey
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 60d4a79674b6..504d2e431c60 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2639,8 +2639,8 @@ sub process { # Check if the commit log has what seems like a diff which can confuse patch if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_has_diff && - (($line =~ m@^\s+diff\b.*a/[\w/]+@ && - $line =~ m@^\s+diff\b.*a/([\w/]+)\s+b/$1\b@) || + (($line =~ m@^\s+diff\b.*a/([\w/]+)@ && + $line =~ m@^\s+diff\b.*a/[\w/]+\s+b/$1\b@) || $line =~ m@^\s*(?:\-\-\-\s+a/|\+\+\+\s+b/)@ || $line =~ m/^\s*\@\@ \-\d+,\d+ \+\d+,\d+ \@\@/)) { ERROR("DIFF_IN_COMMIT_MSG", |