checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly

Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a
string.  Reported by Jaswinder Singh.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft 2008-10-15 22:02:26 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent dea33496dd
commit 81bc0e0202
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line {
$off++;
next;
}
if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
$sanitise_quote = '';
substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;");
$off++;