[PATCH 1/6] checkpatch: cull trailing '*/' in SPDX check

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

Sometimes SPDX expressions appear inside C comments, and this
confuses checkpatch.pl. Drop the closing C comment characters
to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 833f20f555..91616c974f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1368,6 +1368,9 @@ sub checkspdx {
     $expr =~ s/^\s*//g;
     $expr =~ s/\s*$//g;
 
+    # Cull C comment end
+    $expr =~ s/\*\/.*//;
+
     my @bits = split / +/, $expr;
 
     my $prefer = "GPL-2.0-or-later";
-- 
2.50.1