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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2016-06-04 00:55:49 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-04 02:02:56 +0300
commit879be4f378cb412af3a3fe107d35835c99099add (patch)
treebfc013fb2e88aa3ef5659cefeffbb76a1d6db5f6 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent43afc19417ca92cf237095947f597f21d86fd2a7 (diff)
downloadlinux-879be4f378cb412af3a3fe107d35835c99099add.tar.xz
checkpatch: reduce git commit description style false positives
Some lines in a commit log appear to be commit SHA1 ids like: ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 0123456789ab ("commit description")' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a71226c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com Reduce the false positives. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eda977eaa8328fef42bb3c87935d97e10ea8ff67.1464384023.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6750595bd7b8..4904ced676d4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2454,6 +2454,7 @@ sub process {
# Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
+ $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|BugLink):/i &&
($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i ||
($line =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{12,40}\b/i &&
$line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i &&