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checkpatch: suppress errors triggered by short patch
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When the last hunk of a patch is short it will trigger errors from
checkpatch:

    Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)
	    at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 394.
    Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string
	    at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 397.
    Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//)

Avoid touching beyond the last line.  Reported by Julien Brunel.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 16, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ sub ctx_statement_block {
# context.
if ($off >= $len) {
for (; $remain > 0; $line++) {
last if (!defined $lines[$line]);
next if ($lines[$line] =~ /^-/);
$remain--;
$loff = $len;
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