checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly
Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a
string. Reported by Jaswinder Singh.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
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 5382f728..18646f0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
$off++;
next;
}
- if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
+ if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
$sanitise_quote = '';
substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;");
$off++;