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Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow consecutive close braces
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
        Forrest Fleming <ffleming@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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        intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:49:09 -0700
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checkpatch allows consecutive open braces, so it
should also allow consecutive close braces.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 287fe73688f0..ac5e0f06e1af 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4687,7 +4687,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
 # on the line
-		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
+		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)|\}))\S/) {
 			if (ERROR("SPACING",
 				  "space required after that close brace '}'\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {