The patch titled Subject: checkpatch.pl: warn on duplicate sysctl local variable has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatchpl-warn-on-duplicate-sysctl-local-variable.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch.pl: warn on duplicate sysctl local variable d91bff3011cf ("proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check") adds some shared const variables to be used instead of a local copy in each source file. Warn when a chunk duplicates one of these values in a ctl_table struct: $ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-test-commit.patch WARNING: duplicated sysctl range checking value 'zero', consider using the shared one in include/linux/sysctl.h #27: FILE: arch/arm/kernel/isa.c:48: + .extra1 = &zero, WARNING: duplicated sysctl range checking value 'int_max', consider using the shared one in include/linux/sysctl.h #28: FILE: arch/arm/kernel/isa.c:49: + .extra2 = &int_max, total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 14 lines checked Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531131422.14970-1-mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatchpl-warn-on-duplicate-sysctl-local-variable +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6639,6 +6639,12 @@ sub process { "unknown module license " . $extracted_string . "\n" . $herecurr); } } + +# check for sysctl duplicate constants + if ($line =~ /\.extra[12]\s*=\s*&(zero|one|int_max)\b/) { + WARN("DUPLICATED_SYSCTL_CONST", + "duplicated sysctl range checking value '$1', consider using the shared one in include/linux/sysctl.h\n" . $herecurr); + } } # If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mcroce@xxxxxxxxxx are proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check.patch proc-sysctl-add-shared-variables-for-range-check-fix-2.patch