This test is a bit noisy and opinions seem to agree that it should not warn in a lot more situations.
It seems people agree that: return (foo || bar); and return foo || bar; are both acceptable style and checkpatch should be silent about them. For now, it warns on parentheses around a simple constant or a single function or a ternary. return (foo); return (foo(bar)); return (foo ? bar : baz); The last ternary test may be quieted in the future. Modify the deparenthesize function to only strip balanced leading and trailing parentheses. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 91308be..be4be81 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -439,9 +439,14 @@ our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant)}; sub deparenthesize { my ($string) = @_; return "" if (!defined($string)); - $string =~ s@^\s*\(\s*@@g; - $string =~ s@\s*\)\s*$@@g; + + while ($string =~ /^\s*\(.*\)\s*$/) { + $string =~ s@^\s*\(\s*@@; + $string =~ s@\s*\)\s*$@@; + } + $string =~ s@\s+@ @g; + return $string; } @@ -3362,14 +3367,17 @@ sub process { } } -# Return is not a function. +# return is not a function if (defined($stat) && $stat =~ /^.\s*return(\s*)\(/s) { my $spacing = $1; if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && - $stat =~ /^.\s*return\s*$balanced_parens\s*;\s*$/) { - ERROR("RETURN_PARENTHESES", - "return is not a function, parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr); - + $stat =~ /^.\s*return\s*($balanced_parens)\s*;\s*$/) { + my $value = $1; + $value = deparenthesize($value); + if ($value =~ m/^\s*$FuncArg\s*(?:\?|$)/) { + ERROR("RETURN_PARENTHESES", + "return is not a function, parentheses are not required\n" . $herecurr); + } } elsif ($spacing !~ /\s+/) { ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/