From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:23:59 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: fix networking kernel-doc block comment defect
X-Git-Tag: v4.13~8777^2~113
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=61135e966367eda5056504ffd2f7518eaf77e25b;p=mirror_ubuntu-bionic-kernel.git

checkpatch: fix networking kernel-doc block comment defect

checkpatch can generate a false positive when inserting a new kernel-doc
block and function above an existing kernel-doc block.

Fix it by checking that the context line is also a newly inserted line.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.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 e2cb1f4621b7..9185883f5885 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2086,6 +2086,7 @@ sub process {
 		if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
 		    $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*/ &&		#starting /*
 		    $prevrawline !~ /\*\/[ \t]*$/ &&		#no trailing */
+		    $rawline =~ /^\+/ &&			#line is new
 		    $rawline !~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/) {		#no leading *
 			WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
 			     "networking block comments start with * on subsequent lines\n" . $hereprev);