In checkpatch we attempt to check for and warn about
block comments which start with /* or /** followed by a
non-blank. Unfortunately a bug in the regex meant that
we would incorrectly warn about comments starting with
"/**" with no following text:
git show 9813dc6ac3954d58ba16b3920556f106f97e1c67|./scripts/checkpatch.pl -
WARNING: Block comments use a leading /* on a separate line
#34: FILE: tests/libqtest.h:233:
+/**
The sequence "/\*\*?" was intended to match either "/*" or "/**",
but Perl's semantics for '?' allow it to backtrack and try the
"matches 0 chars" option if the "matches 1 char" choice leads to
a failure of the rest of the regex to match. Switch to "/\*\*?+"
which uses what perlre(1) calls the "possessive" quantifier form:
this means that if it matches the "/**" string it will not later
backtrack to matching just the "/*" prefix.
The other end of the regex is also wrong: it is attempting
to check for "/* or /** followed by something that isn't
just whitespace", but [ \t]*.+[ \t]* will match on pure
whitespace. This is less significant but means that a line
with just a comment-starter followed by trailing whitespace
will generate an incorrect warning about block comment style
as well as the correct error about trailing whitespace which
a different checkpatch test emits.
Fixes: 8c06fbdf36 ("scripts/checkpatch.pl: Enforce multiline comment syntax")
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190118165050.22270-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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