Patch "checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
checkpatch-silence-perl-5.26.0-unescaped-left-brace-warnings.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Cyril Bur <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:52:21 -0700
Subject: checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings

From: Cyril Bur <[email protected]>

commit 8d81ae05d0176da1c54aeaed697fa34be5c5575e upstream.

As of perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) some new warnings have occurred when running checkpatch.

Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3544.

Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3885.

Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){ <-- HERE / at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 4374.

It seems perfectly reasonable to do as the warning suggests and simply escape the left brace in these three locations.

---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -3541,7 +3541,7 @@ sub process {
 				$fixedline =~ s/\s*=\s*$/ = {/;
 				fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline);
 				$fixedline = $line;
-				$fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*){\s*/$1/;
+				$fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*)\{\s*/$1/;
 				fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline);
 			}
 		}

@@ -3882,7 +3882,7 @@ sub process {
 				my $fixedline = rtrim($prevrawline) . " {";
 				fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline);
 				$fixedline = $rawline;
-				$fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*){\s*/$1\t/;
+				$fixedline =~ s/^(.\s*)\{\s*/$1\t/;
 				if ($fixedline !~ /^\+\s*$/) {
 					fix_insert_line($fixlinenr, $fixedline);
 				}

@@ -4371,7 +4371,7 @@ sub process {
 			if (ERROR("SPACING",
 				  "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
-				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){/$1 {/;
+				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+.*(?:do|\)))\{/$1 {/;
 			}
 		}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/checkpatch-silence-perl-5.26.0-unescaped-left-brace-warnings.patch