Re: checkpatch bailing out

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 13:02 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> With my laptop being broken I have to work on a server provided by my 
> employer and I am preparing some patches for submission. So I intended 
> to run checkpatch, but I get the following message after which the 
> script bails out:
> 
> $ git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
> Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\((?:[^\(\)]++ <-- 
> HERE |(?-1))*\))/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 347.
> 
> The server runs RHEL5
> 
> 2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Perl interpreter:
> 
> $ /usr/bin/perl -v
> 
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> 
> My repository is based on wireless-testing repo.
> 
> Did a quick search on LKML, but not finding anything like this. Any help 
> would be appreciated here.

Sorry, I don't have perl 5.8.8, it's pretty old.

Perhaps this explains it:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=971814 (question)
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=971883 (explanation)

Perhaps you could test this patch?
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b28cc38..fb53845 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ our $Typecast	= qr{\s*(\(\s*$NonptrType\s*\)){0,1}\s*};
 # requires at least perl version v5.10.0
 # Any use must be runtime checked with $^V
 
-our $balanced_parens = qr/(\((?:[^\(\)]++|(?-1))*\))/;
+our $balanced_parens = qr/(\((?:(?>[^\(\)]+)|(?-1))*\))/;
 our $LvalOrFunc	= qr{($Lval)\s*($balanced_parens{0,1})\s*};
 our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant)};