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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve return negative errno check
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:41:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427139700.16851.32.camel@perches.com> (raw)

Add a few conditions to the test to find
	return (ERRNO);

Make the output message a bit less cryptic too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5748c35..45babf2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4009,12 +4009,12 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-# Return of what appears to be an errno should normally be -'ve
-		if ($line =~ /^.\s*return\s*(E[A-Z]*)\s*;/) {
+# Return of what appears to be an errno should normally be negative
+		if ($sline =~ /\breturn(?:\s*\(+\s*|\s+)(E[A-Z]+)(?:\s*\)+\s*|\s*)[;:,]/) {
 			my $name = $1;
 			if ($name ne 'EOF' && $name ne 'ERROR') {
 				WARN("USE_NEGATIVE_ERRNO",
-				     "return of an errno should typically be -ve (return -$1)\n" . $herecurr);
+				     "return of an errno should typically be negative (ie: return -$1)\n" . $herecurr);
 			}
 		}
 



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