From d62a201f24cba74e2fbf9f6f7af86ff5f5e276fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:23:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: enforce sane perl version I got a bug report from a couple of users who said checkpatch.pl was broken for them. It was erroring out on fairly random lines most commonly with messages like: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <--HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at ./checkpatch.pl line 340. The bug reporter was running a version of perl 5.8 which was end-of-lifed in 2008: http://www.cpan.org/src/. Versions of perl this old are at _best_ quite untested. At worst, they are crusty and known to be completely broken. If folks have a system _that_ old, then we should have mercy on them and give them a half-decent error message rather than fail with nutty error messages. This patch enforces that checkpatch.pl is run with perl 5.10, which was end-of-lifed in 2009. The new --ignore-perl-version command-line switch will let folks override this if they want. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 6b409b0ad457..c00e5108c0d2 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ my @ignore = (); my $help = 0; my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf"; my $max_line_length = 80; +my $ignore_perl_version = 0; +my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0; sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -71,6 +73,8 @@ Options: ".EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes" with potential errors corrected to the preferred checkpatch style + --ignore-perl-version override checking of perl version. expect + runtime errors. -h, --help, --version display this help and exit When FILE is - read standard input. @@ -123,6 +127,7 @@ GetOptions( 'mailback!' => \$mailback, 'summary-file!' => \$summary_file, 'fix!' => \$fix, + 'ignore-perl-version!' => \$ignore_perl_version, 'debug=s' => \%debug, 'test-only=s' => \$tst_only, 'h|help' => \$help, @@ -133,6 +138,13 @@ help(0) if ($help); my $exit = 0; +if ($^V && $^V lt $minimum_perl_version) { + printf "$P: requires at least perl version %vd\n", $minimum_perl_version; + if (!$ignore_perl_version) { + exit(1); + } +} + if ($#ARGV < 0) { print "$P: no input files\n"; exit(1); -- 2.39.5