checkpatch: reduce false positives when checking void function return statements
The previous patch had a few too many false positives on styles that
should be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 010b18e..182be0f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3476,12 +3476,17 @@
}
}
-# unnecessary return in a void function? (a single leading tab, then return;)
- if ($sline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ &&
- $prevline =~ /^\+/) {
+# unnecessary return in a void function
+# at end-of-function, with the previous line a single leading tab, then return;
+# and the line before that not a goto label target like "out:"
+ if ($sline =~ /^[ \+]}\s*$/ &&
+ $prevline =~ /^\+\treturn\s*;\s*$/ &&
+ $linenr >= 3 &&
+ $lines[$linenr - 3] =~ /^[ +]/ &&
+ $lines[$linenr - 3] !~ /^[ +]\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
WARN("RETURN_VOID",
- "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $herecurr);
- }
+ "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $hereprev);
+ }
# if statements using unnecessary parentheses - ie: if ((foo == bar))
if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
