checkpatch: handle C99 comments correctly (performance issue)

This fixes the sanitation process in checkpatch.pl so that it blocks out
the text after a C99 style comment the same way it does with block style
comments.  This prevents the text from getting processed as regular code.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fd64816..aa009a3 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -356,6 +356,13 @@ sub sanitise_line {
                        $off++;
                        next;
                }
+               if ($sanitise_quote eq '' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '//') {
+                       $sanitise_quote = '//';
+
+                       substr($res, $off, 2, $sanitise_quote);
+                       $off++;
+                       next;
+               }
 
                # A \ in a string means ignore the next character.
                if (($sanitise_quote eq "'" || $sanitise_quote eq '"') &&
@@ -379,6 +386,8 @@ sub sanitise_line {
                #print "c<$c> SQ<$sanitise_quote>\n";
                if ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote eq '*/' && $c ne "\t") {
                        substr($res, $off, 1, $;);
+               } elsif ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote eq '//' && $c ne "\t") {
+                       substr($res, $off, 1, $;);
                } elsif ($off != 0 && $sanitise_quote && $c ne "\t") {
                        substr($res, $off, 1, 'X');
                } else {
@@ -386,6 +395,10 @@ sub sanitise_line {
                }
        }
 
+       if ($sanitise_quote eq '//') {
+               $sanitise_quote = '';
+       }
+
        # The pathname on a #include may be surrounded by '<' and '>'.
        if ($res =~ /^.\s*\#\s*include\s+\<(.*)\>/) {
                my $clean = 'X' x length($1);