checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers

We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types,
for example:

	void * __user * __user bar;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5ffc940399bef6cb8f9ba73e7b8e2559e75eac02..92d13710ff523d4c54368ff738d84660f5f9130c 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # * goes on variable not on type
                # (char*[ const])
-               if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+               if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) {
                        my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
 
                        # Should start with a space.
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ sub process {
                        if ($from ne $to) {
                                ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" .  $herecurr);
                        }
-               } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+               } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) {
                        my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
 
                        # Should start with a space.