checkpatch.pl: fix CAST detection

We should only claim that something is a cast if we did not encouter a
token before, that did set av_pending.

This fixes the operator * in the line below to be detected as binary (vs
unary).

kmalloc(sizeof(struct alphatrack_ocmd) * true_size, GFP_KERNEL);

Reported-by: Audun Hoem <audun.hoem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 36d6851f97d0a084505f59cab6f4e0df00017cbc..ddd27d8e6312d725b47ee75c854816145c7e590c 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
                                $av_preprocessor = 0;
                        }
 
-               } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/) {
+               } elsif ($cur =~ /^(\(\s*$Type\s*)\)/ && $av_pending eq '_') {
                        print "CAST($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
                        push(@av_paren_type, $type);
                        $type = 'C';