checkpatch: suspect indent -- skip over preprocessor, label and blank lines

We should skip over and check the lines which follow preprocessor
statements, labels, and blank lines.  These all have legitimate reasons to
be indented differently.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3ae79ab2cab..6ddae89c3cfa 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ sub process {
 			if ($s =~ s/^\s*\\//) {
 				$continuation = 1;
 			}
-			if ($s =~ s/^\s*\n//) {
+			if ($s =~ s/^\s*?\n//) {
 				$check = 1;
 				$cond_lines++;
 			}
@@ -1446,15 +1446,20 @@ sub process {
 				$check = 0;
 			}
 
-			# Ignore the current line if its is a preprocessor
-			# line.
-			if ($s =~ /^\s*#\s*/) {
-				$check = 0;
-			}
+			my $cond_ptr = -1;
+			while ($cond_ptr != $cond_lines) {
+				$cond_ptr = $cond_lines;
 
-			# Ignore the current line if it is label.
-			if ($s =~ /^\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
-				$check = 0;
+				# Ignore:
+				#  1) blank lines, they should be at 0,
+				#  2) preprocessor lines, and
+				#  3) labels.
+				if ($s =~ /^\s*?\n/ ||
+				    $s =~ /^\s*#\s*?/ ||
+				    $s =~ /^\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
+					$s =~ s/^.*?\n//;
+					$cond_lines++;
+				}
 			}
 
 			my (undef, $sindent) = line_stats("+" . $s);
@@ -1470,7 +1475,7 @@ sub process {
 				$stat_real = "[...]\n$stat_real";
 			}
 
-			##print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n";
+			#print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n";
 
 			if ($check && (($sindent % 8) != 0 ||
 			    ($sindent <= $indent && $s ne ''))) {