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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2021-11-08 18:33:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-09 10:02:50 -0800
commit70a11659f590b6ac32e6260d5c64a3e83b1272d4 (patch)
treedf4c3ac67bbc130ff933873c41af8e790e65a9ad /scripts
parent3e421469dd77ebbe7d5403827ecd5a74bcbcbb0a (diff)
checkpatch: improve EXPORT_SYMBOL test for EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS uses
The EXPORT_SYMBOL test expects a single argument but definitions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS have multiple arguments. Update the test to extract only the first argument from any EXPORT_SYMBOL related definition. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e8f251b42e405f460f26a23ba9b33ef45a94adc.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 88cb294dc447..91798b07c6cb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4449,6 +4449,7 @@ sub process {
# XXX(foo);
# EXPORT_SYMBOL(something_foo);
my $name = $1;
+ $name =~ s/^\s*($Ident).*/$1/;
if ($stat =~ /^(?:.\s*}\s*\n)?.([A-Z_]+)\s*\(\s*($Ident)/ &&
$name =~ /^${Ident}_$2/) {
#print "FOO C name<$name>\n";