The arguments of sizeof are not evaluated so arguments are safe to
re-use in that context. Excluding sizeof sub-expressions means
macros like ARRAY_SIZE can pass checkpatch.
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jack...@bluwireless.co.uk>
---
v2 is the same patch, I just forgot to add CCs to the original.
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 93a7edfe0f05..907a8e8d80ae 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5191,7 +5191,7 @@ sub process {
next if ($arg =~ /\.\.\./);
next if ($arg =~ /^type$/i);
my $tmp_stmt = $define_stmt;
- $tmp_stmt =~
s/\b(typeof|__typeof__|__builtin\w+|typecheck\s*\(\s*$Type\s*,|\#+)\s*\(*\s*$arg\s*\)*\b//g;
+ $tmp_stmt =~
s/\b(sizeof|typeof|__typeof__|__builtin\w+|typecheck\s*\(\s*$Type\s*,|\#+)\s*\(*\s*$arg\s*\)*\b//g;
$tmp_stmt =~ s/\#+\s*$arg\b//g;
$tmp_stmt =~ s/\b$arg\s*\#\#//g;
my $use_cnt = () = $tmp_stmt =~ /\b$arg\b/g;
--
2.17.1
