From: Florian Mickler <flor...@mickler.org> We should only claim that something is a cast if we did not encouter a token before, that did set av_pending.
This fixes the operator * in the line below to be detected as binary (vs unary). kmalloc(sizeof(struct alphatrack_ocmd) * true_size, GFP_KERNEL); Reported-by: Peter Chubb <nicta.com.au> Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <flor...@mickler.org> (cherry-picked from Linux kernel commit c023e4734c3e8801e0ecb5e81b831d42a374d861) Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 36d6851..ddd27d8 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ sub annotate_values { $av_preprocessor = 0; } - } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/) { + } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/ && $av_pending eq '_') { print "CAST($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1); push(@av_paren_type, $type); $type = 'C'; -- 1.7.7.1