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checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... )
authorMrinal Pandey <mrinalmni@gmail.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 23:35:52 +0000 (16:35 -0700)
committerKelsey Skunberg <kelsey.skunberg@canonical.com>
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:47:08 +0000 (00:47 -0600)
commit15ef8a4f7929a918458f1986a13b4fbcefc2f043
treeb2385ebaf32649c0d90e2a89cace1d03e3f66e06
parent3c97b80fac123d45dd1b71e746c0d01a811c6489
checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... )

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895880
commit 13e45417cedbfc44b1926124b1846f5ee8c6ba4a upstream.

The usage of "capture group (...)" in the immediate condition after `&&`
results in `$1` being uninitialized.  This issues a warning "Use of
uninitialized value $1 in regexp compilation at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
line 2638".

I noticed this bug while running checkpatch on the set of commits from
v5.7 to v5.8-rc1 of the kernel on the commits with a diff content in
their commit message.

This bug was introduced in the script by commit e518e9a59ec3
("checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog").  It
has been in the script since then.

The author intended to store the match made by capture group in variable
`$1`.  This should have contained the name of the file as `[\w/]+`
matched.  However, this couldn't be accomplished due to usage of capture
group and `$1` in the same regular expression.

Fix this by placing the capture group in the condition before `&&`.
Thus, `$1` can be initialized to the text that capture group matches
thereby setting it to the desired and required value.

Fixes: e518e9a59ec3 ("checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog")
Signed-off-by: Mrinal Pandey <mrinalmni@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714032352.f476hanaj2dlmiot@mrinalpandey
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kelsey Skunberg <kelsey.skunberg@canonical.com>
scripts/checkpatch.pl