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[PULL,02/12] checkpatch: do not warn for multiline parenthesized returned value

Message ID 1562356239-19391-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
State New
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Series [PULL,01/12] pc: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in pc_machine_get_device_memory_region_size() | expand

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini July 5, 2019, 7:50 p.m. UTC 
While indeed we do not want to have

    return (a);

it is less clear that this applies to

    return (a &&
            b);

Some editors indent more nicely if you have parentheses, and some people's
eyes may appreciate that as well.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <1561116534-21814-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index c2aaf42..2f81371 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2296,7 +2296,8 @@  sub process {
 			       $value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) {
 			}
 #print "value<$value>\n";
-			if ($value =~ /^\s*(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*$/) {
+			if ($value =~ /^\s*(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)\s*$/ &&
+			    $line =~ /;$/) {
 				ERROR("return is not a function, parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr);
 
 			} elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) {