checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching

In the following code,

union thread_union init_thread_union
	__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
		{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };

There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,

union thread_union init_thread_union
	__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
		INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};

However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".

It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace.  Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.

Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
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 cb2dac3..ba105a8 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1669,8 +1669,8 @@ sub process {
                }
 
 # check for initialisation to aggregates open brace on the next line
-               if ($prevline =~ /$Declare\s*$Ident\s*=\s*$/ &&
-                   $line =~ /^.\s*{/) {
+               if ($line =~ /^.\s*{/ &&
+                   $prevline =~ /(?:^|[^=])=\s*$/) {
                        ERROR("that open brace { should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev);
                }