Commit e4c5babd authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch

Patches that add or modify code like

	} else
		<foo>
or
	else {
		<bar>

where one branch appears to have a brace and the other branch does not
have a brace should emit a --strict style message.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c6be32747fc725cbc235802991746700a0f54fdc.1486754390.git.joe@perches.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1bde561e
...@@ -5104,6 +5104,12 @@ sub process { ...@@ -5104,6 +5104,12 @@ sub process {
} }
} }
# check for single line unbalanced braces
if ($sline =~ /.\s*\}\s*else\s*$/ ||
$sline =~ /.\s*else\s*\{\s*$/) {
CHK("BRACES", "Unbalanced braces around else statement\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for unnecessary blank lines around braces # check for unnecessary blank lines around braces
if (($line =~ /^.\s*}\s*$/ && $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/)) { if (($line =~ /^.\s*}\s*$/ && $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/)) {
if (CHK("BRACES", if (CHK("BRACES",
......
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