Commit e4bf9065c8 for qemu.org

commit e4bf9065c874b34862f4bafea0e7197fb63310c6
Author: Akihiko Odaki <odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date:   Fri Apr 24 18:27:11 2026 +0900

    scripts/checkpatch: Avoid false positive on empty blocks

    SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT checks the first line after a conditional statement.
    When the block is empty, the first line after the conditional is the
    closing brace at the same indentation level, so checkpatch reports a
    bogus indentation error.

    Ignore same-indented braces and else statements, matching with:
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f6950a735f29e782bc219ece22bb91d6e1ab7bbc

    Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
    Message-ID: <20260424-force_rcu-v4-6-feccfaca0568@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
    Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d440553a7e..2189db19f5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2283,7 +2283,8 @@ sub process {
 			#print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n";

 			if ($check && (($sindent % 4) != 0 ||
-			    ($sindent <= $indent && $s ne ''))) {
+			    ($sindent <= $indent &&
+			     $s !~ /^\s*(?:\}|\{|else\b)/))) {
 				ERROR("suspect code indent for conditional statements ($indent, $sindent)\n" . $herecurr . "$stat_real\n");
 			}
 		}