checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly

Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a
string.  Reported by Jaswinder Singh.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5382f7287397..18646f076a84 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line {
                         $off++;
                         next;
                 }
-                if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
+                if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') {
                         $sanitise_quote = '';
                         substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;");
                         $off++;