checkpatch: improve the indented label test

checkpatch identifies a label only when a terminating colon
immediately follows an identifier.

Bitfield definitions can appear to be labels so ignore any
spaces between the identifier terminating colon and any digit
that may be used to define a bitfield length.

Miscellanea:

o Improve the initial checkpatch comment
o Use the more typical '&&' instead of 'and'
o Require the initial label character to be a non-digit
  (Can't use $Ident here because $Ident allows ## concatenation)
o Use $sline instead of $line to ignore comments
o Use '$sline !~ /.../' instead of '!($line =~ /.../)'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b54d673e7cde7de5de0c9ba4dd57dd0858580ca4.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Manikishan Ghantasala <manikishanghantasala@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d65334588eb4..dad87c368632 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5361,9 +5361,13 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-#goto labels aren't indented, allow a single space however
-		if ($line=~/^.\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+:(?![0-9]+)/ and
-		   !($line=~/^. [A-Za-z\d_]+:/) and !($line=~/^.\s+default:/)) {
+# check that goto labels aren't indented (allow a single space indentation)
+# and ignore bitfield definitions like foo:1
+# Strictly, labels can have whitespace after the identifier and before the :
+# but this is not allowed here as many ?: uses would appear to be labels
+		if ($sline =~ /^.\s+[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*:(?!\s*\d+)/ &&
+		    $sline !~ /^. [A-Za-z\d_][A-Za-z\d_]*:/ &&
+		    $sline !~ /^.\s+default:/) {
 			if (WARN("INDENTED_LABEL",
 				 "labels should not be indented\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {