Lines containing "} else {" should not be detected as unbalanced braces.
But the second check can be reduced to ".+else\s*{" and it therefore
never checked if the beginning of a line contains any other character
(like the relevant "}"). This check would also return true for "} else
{" and create warnings like
CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
#391: FILE: ./net/batman-adv/tvlv.c:391:
+ } else {
The check can be changed to check the whole line for the missing "}" to
avoid this false positive.
Fixes: 0d1532456c26 ("checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220121644.12209-1-sven@narfation.org
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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