The .match() method only matches at the beginning of a string but the
blacklists here need to match anywhere in a string.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
---
 utilities/checkpatch.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py
index 1438e5aa4401..61c123829610 100755
--- a/utilities/checkpatch.py
+++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py
@@ -458,14 +458,12 @@ file_checks = [
 
 checks = [
     {'regex': None,
-     'match_name':
-     lambda x: not line_length_blacklist.match(x),
+     'match_name': lambda x: not line_length_blacklist.search(x),
      'check': lambda x: line_length_check(x),
      'print': lambda: print_warning("Line length is >79-characters long")},
 
     {'regex': None,
-     'match_name':
-     lambda x: not leading_whitespace_blacklist.match(x),
+     'match_name': lambda x: not leading_whitespace_blacklist.search(x),
      'check': lambda x: not leading_whitespace_is_spaces(x),
      'print': lambda: print_warning("Line has non-spaces leading whitespace")},
 
-- 
2.16.1

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