On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 13:16 +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > Lines containing "} else {" should not be detected as unbalanced braces. > But the second check can be reduced to ".+else\s*{" and it therefore > never checked if the beginning of a line contains any other character > (like the relevant "}"). This check would also return true for > "} else {" and create warnings like
Yeah, thanks. That's what I meant to do originally. Acked-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> cheers, Joe > CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement > #391: FILE: ./net/batman-adv/tvlv.c:391: > + } else { > > The check can be changed to check the whole line for the missing "}" to > avoid this false positive. > > Fixes: 0d1532456c26 ("checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch") > Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index ad5ea5c545b2..baa3c7be04ad 100755 > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -5107,8 +5107,8 @@ sub process { > } > > # check for single line unbalanced braces > - if ($sline =~ /.\s*\}\s*else\s*$/ || > - $sline =~ /.\s*else\s*\{\s*$/) { > + if ($sline =~ /^.\s*\}\s*else\s*$/ || > + $sline =~ /^.\s*else\s*\{\s*$/) { > CHK("BRACES", "Unbalanced braces around else > statement\n" . $herecurr); > } >