The spacing check is unreachable for return statements
followed by an opening parentheses.
For example:

int foo(int bar, int baz)
{
        return(bar+baz);
}

There should be an error emitted for a space between
return and the opening parentheses but checkpatch doesn't
emit one.

Fix the spacing check. Also add --fix option to
the check.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8da6cde20c68..07feeb3321e2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5176,10 +5176,13 @@ sub process {
                                if ($value =~ m/^\s*$FuncArg\s*(?:\?|$)/) {
                                        ERROR("RETURN_PARENTHESES",
                                              "return is not a function, 
parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr);
+                               } elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) {
+                                       if (ERROR("SPACING",
+                                                 "space required before the 
open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr) &&
+                                           $fix) {
+                                               $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ 
s/\breturn\s*\(/return \(/;
+                                       }
                                }
-                       } elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) {
-                               ERROR("SPACING",
-                                     "space required before the open 
parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
                        }
                }
 
-- 
2.27.0

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