checkpatch: ## is not a valid modifier

Andy Whitcroft · torvalds · commit 89a883530fe7 · 2012-01-10T16:30:50.000-08:00
Inserting a # into the modifiers list will incorrectly add the null string
to the modifiers list, leading to an infinite loop.  As neither of these
is a valid modifier form simply ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1224,7 +1224,9 @@ sub possible {
 			case|
 			else|
 			asm|__asm__|
-			do
+			do|
+			\#|
+			\#\#|
 		)(?:\s|$)|
 		^(?:typedef|struct|enum)\b
 	    )}x;
