From f27c95db1176b41c6c87d9d3480d15efbca8f3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:10:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test

This --strict test previously worked only for what appeared to be cast
to pointer types.

Make it work for all casts.

Also, there's no reason to show the previous line for this type of
message, so don't.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 57a11d7ee841..b351805149a5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2260,12 +2260,12 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\*[ \t]*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
+		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
 			if (CHK("SPACING",
-				"No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $hereprev) &&
+				"No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
 				$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
-				    s/^(\+.*\*[ \t]*\))[ \t]+/$1/;
+				    s/(\(\s*$Type\s*\))[ \t]+/$1/;
 			}
 		}
 
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