I have stumbled about a bug in checkpatch.pl while working on some
code in drivers/staging. It seems to get confused when confronted with
asterisks. For example, this snippe:
kmalloc(sizeof(struct alphatrack_ocmd) * true_size, GFP_KERNEL);
Here the asterisk is in it's binary form, obviously, and performs a
multiplication, however checkpatch reports this:
drivers/staging/frontier/alphatrack.c:772: ERROR: space prohibited
after that '*' (ctx:WxW)
So it's obviously thinking it's the unary operator, which should only
be preceded by a variable name or another unary operator such as ++.
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