kernel/linux.git/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch v7.3-rc1

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-23T15:07:11+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm" (Bryam Vargas) Validate and bound all input lengths and count fields in the o2dlm migration and recovery receive handlers to prevent memory corruption and kernel panics from malformed cluster messages - "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds" (Cen Zhang) Validate OCFS2 extended attribute entry name and value bounds during metadata reads to prevent out-of-range memory accesses during retrieval or listing operations. - "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests" (Yiyang Chen) Return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid file descriptor to prevent caller hangs and misleading success ACKs. Add a kselftest to validate valid cgroup v1 queries and verify proper error handling across different Netlink flag combinations. - "misc lib/raid/ improvements v2" (Christoph Hellwig) Improve benchmark-based algorithm selection for the XOR and RAID6 libraries, add KUnit benchmark tests, and cleanup minor implementation details. - "ocfs2: cluster: o2hb_region_pin() fixes" (Joseph Qi) Fix sleeping-in-atomic, lock order inversion and error-path cleanup bugs in o2hb_region_pin() by releasing o2hb_live_lock across sleeping configfs_depend_item() calls and using unlocked variants from callback context. Ensure failed pin attempts properly decrement user counts and unpin partially initialized heartbeat regions to prevent memory leaks and unprotected states. - "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()" (Vincent Mailhol) Fix an off-by-one which could cause an out-of-bounds read. - "ocfs2: harden heartbeat teardown races" (Cen Zhang) Fix two OCFS2 heartbeat/o2net teardown races found by KASAN. - "taskstats: tidy up the cpumask command path" *Bradley Morgan) make two small cleanups in kernel/taskstats.c. - "ocfs2: validate active orphan slots during inode read" (ZhengYuan Huang) Validate active ordinary and append-DIO orphan slots read from OCFS2 dinodes at the metadata boundary to prevent corrupted slot indices from causing out-of-bounds array accesses. - "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans" (Zhan Xusheng) Enforce strict boundary checks on directory entry record lengths and offset calculations during OCFS2 directory re-scans to prevent out-of-bounds memory reads and directory position corruption. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (95 commits) mailmap: fix bouncing address for Taniya Das ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan squashfs: avoid thundering-herd cache wakeups prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator mailmap: update email address for Linfeng Sun lib/interval_tree: fix allocation warning messages checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions Squashfs: check block offset is not negative signal: factor out the kernel reserved si_code check ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels ocfs2: fix cached cluster count after suballocator reclaim ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_init_acl() ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read ocfs2: validate orphan slot during inode read selftests/prctl: fix non-anonymous VMA mapping in set-anon-vma-name test MAINTAINERS: add IRC and patchwork for LTP include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline tools/mm: prevent page_owner_sort from truncating input hung_task: update DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER Kconfig help ...

checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions

2026-08-13T22:42:09+00:00

It's customary for NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro usage to appear immediately after a function's final closing brace, but checkpatch doesn't know that yet. As a result, checkpatch --strict incorrectly flags this common kernel pattern, e.g., CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations 33: FILE: arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:273: } +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(probe_single_step_handler); Fix by adding NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of patterns that are cleared to appear immediately after functions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/130be7db-6098-86a4-60fe-0c1a5d9e30ba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Nam Cao Cc: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format

2026-08-05T18:53:21+00:00

There is a new format for the 'Assisted-by:' tag. Change checkpatch.pl to just check that it has a value rather than testing for a specific format. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260804-checkpatch-v1-1-27f29c79a46f@kernel.org>

checkpatch: don't emit warnings for ID-base USB & PCI DT compatibles

2026-08-04T04:10:12+00:00

The USB and PCI device bindings define some compatible patterns based on device IDs that use the comma to separate vendor and product IDs. These prefix patterns include: - ^usb(if)?[0-9a-f]{1,4}, - ^pci[0-9a-f]{2,4}, - ^pciclass, These are not real vendor prefixes. Don't emit warnings for them. Instead just skip over the DT compatible check altogether, and leave the real check to the DT validator. This avoids false positive warnings about undocumented DT vendor prefixes and compatibles. Note that the script mostly only checks the first compatible string of each node, as it processes the source file line-by-line, and the check only matches on the line with 'compatible = "..."'. Otherwise there would be more warnings from arch/mips/boot/dts/loongson/ls7a-pch.dtsi since that file also includes compatibles like "pciclass0c0310" and "pciclass0c03" which are not accepted either. "pci0014,7a24.0" is not valid either, but this patch leaves the real check to the DT validator. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260707074629.3132930-1-wenst@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai Reviewed-by: Brian Norris Tested-by: Brian Norris Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-06-21T20:20:19+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "taskstats: fix TGID dead-thread stat retention" (Yiyang Chen) Fix a taskstats TGID aggregation bug where fields added in the TGID query path were not preserved after thread exit, and adds a kselftest covering the regression. - "lib/tests: string_helpers: Slight improvements" (Andy Shevchenko) Improve lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c a little - "lib/base64: decode fixes" (Josh Law) Address minor issues in lib/base64.c - "selftests/filelock: Make output more kselftestish" (Mark Brown) Make the output from the ofdlocks test a bit easier for tooling to work with. Also ignore the generated file - "uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection" (Yury Norov) Simplify the usercopy code by removing the selectability of inlining copy_{from,to}_user(). - "ocfs2: validate inline xattr header consumers" (ZhengYuan Huang) Fix a number of possible issues in the ocfs2 xattr code - "lib and lib/cmdline enhancements" (Dmitry Antipov) Provide additional robustness checking in the cmdline handling code and its in-kernel testing and selftests - "cleanup the RAID6 P/Q library" (Christoph Hellwig) Clean up the RAID6 P/Q library to match the recent updates to the RAID 5 XOR library and other CRC/crypto libraries - "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata" (Michael Bommarito) Add three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so malformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies them into the in-core inode - "lib/raid: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()" (Mike Rapoport) Clean up the lib/raid code by using kmalloc() in more places * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (108 commits) ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write ocfs2: fix NULL h_transaction deref in ocfs2_assure_trans_credits lib: interval_tree_test: validate benchmark parameters ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters treewide: fix transposed "sign" typos and update spelling.txt ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec fat: reject BPB volumes whose data area starts beyond total sectors selftests/uevent: increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to avoid ENOBUFS on busy systems lib/test_firmware: allocate the configured into_buf size fs: efs: remove unneeded debug prints checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link: MAINTAINERS: add Alexander as a kcov reviewer mailmap: update Alexander Sverdlin's Email addresses fs: fat: inode: replace sprintf() with scnprintf() ocfs2: fix out-of-bounds write in ocfs2_remove_refcount_extent ocfs2: fix race between ocfs2_control_install_private() and ocfs2_control_release() ocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open ocfs2: reject FITRIM ranges shorter than a cluster ocfs2: validate fast symlink target during inode read ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode() ...

checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:

2026-06-11T18:42:21+00:00

> The tag should be followed by a Closes: tag pointing to the report, > unless the report is not available on the web. The Link: tag can be > used instead of Closes: if the patch fixes a part of the issue(s) > being reported. According to Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, Link: is also acceptable to follow a Reported-by:, if the patch fixes a part of the issue(s) being reported. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260605-checkpatch-v1-1-8c68ae618513@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Cryolitia PukNgae Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Cheng Nie Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: add check for function pointer arrays in declarations

2026-05-29T04:24:40+00:00

checkpatch did not allow function pointer arrays when testing declaration blocks. Add it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/eb62763085eb42193a611bca00a62d6f0ae72e1e.1776530118.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: add option to not force /* */ for SPDX

2026-05-29T04:24:39+00:00

Add option --spdx-cxx-comments to not force C comments (/* */) for SPDX, but allow also C++ comments (//). As documented in aa19a176df95d6, this is required for some old toolchains still have older assembler tools which cannot handle C++ style comments. This avoids forcing this for projects which vendored checkpatch.pl (e.g. LTP or u-boot). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260421211408.383972-2-pvorel@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: allow passing config directory

2026-05-29T04:24:39+00:00

checkpatch.pl searches for .checkpatch.conf in $CWD, $HOME and $CWD/.scripts. Allow passing a single directory via CHECKPATCH_CONFIG_DIR environment variable (empty value is ignored). This allows to directly use project configuration file for projects which vendored checkpatch.pl (e.g. LTP or u-boot). Although it'd be more convenient for user to have --conf-dir option (instead of using environment variable), code would get ugly because options from the configuration file needs to be read before processing command line options with Getopt::Long. While at it, document directories and environment variable in -h help and HTML doc. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260421211408.383972-1-pvorel@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: Undeprecate rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace()

2026-05-24T07:39:47+00:00

It turns out that there are BPF use cases that rely on nesting RCU Tasks Trace readers. These use cases are well-served by the old rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() functions that maintain a nesting counter in the task_struct structure. But these use cases incur a performance penalty when using the shiny new rcu_read_lock_tasks_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_tasks_trace() functions, which nest in the same way that SRCU does. This means that rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() will be with us for some time. Therefore, remove the checkpatch.pl deprecation. Also, the rcu_read_lock_tasks_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_tasks_trace() functions are intended for use only by BPF. Therefore, add them to the list of functions that checkpatch complains about outside of BPF (and of course, RCU). Reported-by: Puranjay Mohan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)