devtools: fix check of variable declaration inside for

[dpdk.git] / devtools / checkpatches.sh

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index 27ab125..58021aa 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ check_forbidden_additions() { # <patch>
 
        # forbid variable declaration inside "for" loop
        awk -v FOLDERS='.' \
-               -v EXPRESSIONS='for *\\((char|u?int|unsigned|s?size_t)' \
+               -v EXPRESSIONS='for[[:space:]]*\\((char|u?int|unsigned|s?size_t)' \
                -v RET_ON_FAIL=1 \
                -v MESSAGE='Declaring a variable inside for()' \
                -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \