From 4b948222c0801ddd428ca2e4260181ba35b219a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:16:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: cull trailing '*/' in SPDX check
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Sometimes SPDX expressions appear inside C comments, and this
confuses checkpatch.pl. Drop the closing C comment characters
to avoid this.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20250916081638.764020-2-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 833f20f5555..91616c974f2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1368,6 +1368,9 @@ sub checkspdx {
     $expr =~ s/^\s*//g;
     $expr =~ s/\s*$//g;
 
+    # Cull C comment end
+    $expr =~ s/\*\/.*//;
+
     my @bits = split / +/, $expr;
 
     my $prefer = "GPL-2.0-or-later";
-- 
2.47.3