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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2017-02-24 15:01:41 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -0800 |
| commit | e4c5babd32f974cf3db4b5bdb02f23132cc81afb (patch) | |
| tree | d41c61a5d14983da808de3ac672d72abfecc27e8 | |
| parent | 1bde561e471c964b57512008351ed75ead754b4b (diff) | |
| download | linux-e4c5babd32f974cf3db4b5bdb02f23132cc81afb.tar.bz2 | |
checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch
Patches that add or modify code like
} else
<foo>
or
else {
<bar>
where one branch appears to have a brace and the other branch does not
have a brace should emit a --strict style message.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c6be32747fc725cbc235802991746700a0f54fdc.1486754390.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 12db1483e6c2..7fb73d92801c 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5104,6 +5104,12 @@ sub process { } } +# check for single line unbalanced braces + if ($sline =~ /.\s*\}\s*else\s*$/ || + $sline =~ /.\s*else\s*\{\s*$/) { + CHK("BRACES", "Unbalanced braces around else statement\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for unnecessary blank lines around braces if (($line =~ /^.\s*}\s*$/ && $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/)) { if (CHK("BRACES", |