From: Andy Whitcroft Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below we are not correctly matching it as a type. Fix the declaration. static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order) { } Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-possible-modifiers-are-not-being-correctly-matched scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-possible-modifiers-are-not-being-correctly-matched +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -168,12 +168,11 @@ our @modifierList = ( ); sub build_types { - my $mods = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)"; - my $all = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)"; + my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)"; + my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)"; $Modifier = qr{(?:$Attribute|$Sparse|$mods)}; $NonptrType = qr{ - (?:const\s+)? - (?:$mods\s+)? + (?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)* (?: (?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)| (?:${all}\b) _