Re: False positive of "open brace '{' following function declarations" in checkpatch.pl

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 22:50 +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> Hi Andy and Joe, 
> 
> I am getting the following ERROR from check patch.pl:
> 
> ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line
> #235: FILE: tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_stacktrace_map_build_id_offset.c:11:
> +struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") control_map = {
> 
> 
> I guess it treats SEC("maps") as a function. But it is actually struct:
> 
> struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") control_map = {
>         .type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY,
>         .key_size = sizeof(__u32),
>         .value_size = sizeof(__u32),
>         .max_entries = 1,
> };

This seems to work better:
---
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 78e7a310af46..b6a0da9c7de7 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3919,8 +3919,10 @@ sub process {
 
 # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
 # or if closed on same line
-		if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s*{/) and
-		    !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s\{/) and !($line=~/}/)) {
+		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+		    ($sline =~ /$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{/) &&
+		    !($sline =~ /\#\s*define\b.*do\s*\{/) &&
+		    $sline !~ /}/) {
 			if (ERROR("OPEN_BRACE",
 				  "open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {