The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: don't interpret stack dumps as commit IDs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: don't interpret stack dumps as commit IDs Add more types of lines that appear to be stack dumps that also include hex lines that might otherwise be interpreted as commit IDs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff00208289224f0ca4eaf4ff7c9c6e087dad0a63.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7dc9727795db3802809a24162abe0b67e14123b.1563575364.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2725,8 +2725,10 @@ sub process { ($line =~ /^\s*(?:WARNING:|BUG:)/ || $line =~ /^\s*\[\s*\d+\.\d{6,6}\s*\]/ || # timestamp - $line =~ /^\s*\[\<[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}\>\]/)) { - # stack dump address + $line =~ /^\s*\[\<[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}\>\]/) || + $line =~ /^(?:\s+\w+:\s+[0-9a-fA-F]+){3,3}/ || + $line =~ /^\s*\#\d+\s*\[[0-9a-fA-F]+\]\s*\w+ at [0-9a-fA-F]+/) { + # stack dump address styles $commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are string-add-stracpy-and-stracpy_pad-mechanisms.patch kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api.patch checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch