From: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:35:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: scripts/checkpatch: remove check on forbidden space before '[' in C++
X-Git-Tag: v11.1.0-rc0~58^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6bb1d656cba9cf49210eab04671f2cfcfca8b66;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git

scripts/checkpatch: remove check on forbidden space before '[' in C++

Lambdas are very confusing for checkpatch, so just relax this check.

Reviewed-by: Chao Liu <chao.liu.zevorn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@mailo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260615193526.2883349-26-pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 538e059e26..03f35e7501 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2423,7 +2423,8 @@ sub process {
 #  3. inside a curly brace -- = { [0...10] = 5 }
 #  4. after a comma -- [1] = 5, [2] = 6
 #  5. in a macro definition -- #define abc(x) [x] = y
-		while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
+		my $cpp = $realfile =~ /(\.cpp)$/;
+		while (!$cpp && $line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
 			my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
 			if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
 			    ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&