From: Andy Whitcroft We are not counting the lines in the block correctly which causes the comment scan to stop prematurly and thus miss comments which end at the end of the block. Fix this up. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1029,9 +1029,14 @@ sub process { # edge is a close comment then we must be in a comment # at context start. my $edge; - for (my $ln = $linenr + 1; $ln < ($linenr + $realcnt); $ln++) { - next if ($line =~ /^-/); - ($edge) = ($rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ m@(/\*|\*/)@); + my $cnt = $realcnt; + for (my $ln = $linenr + 1; $cnt > 0; $ln++) { + next if (defined $rawlines[$ln - 1] && + $rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ /^-/); + $cnt--; + #print "RAW<$rawlines[$ln - 1]>\n"; + ($edge) = (defined $rawlines[$ln - 1] && + $rawlines[$ln - 1] =~ m@(/\*|\*/)@); last if (defined $edge); } if (defined $edge && $edge eq '*/') { _