The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add kmalloc_array_node to unnecessary OOM message check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-kmalloc_array_node-to-unnecessary-oom-message-check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-kmalloc_array_node-to-unnecessary-oom-message-check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-kmalloc_array_node-to-unnecessary-oom-message-check.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: add kmalloc_array_node to unnecessary OOM message check commit 5799b255c491 ("include/linux/slab.h: add kmalloc_array_node() and kcalloc_node()") was added in 2017. Update the unnecessary OOM message test to include it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9dc4a808b1518e08ab8761480d9872e5d18e7cd.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-kmalloc_array_node-to-unnecessary-oom-message-check +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ our $logFunctions = qr{(?x: our $allocFunctions = qr{(?x: (?:(?:devm_)? - (?:kv|k|v)[czm]alloc(?:_node|_array)? | + (?:kv|k|v)[czm]alloc(?:_array)?(?:_node)? | kstrdup(?:_const)? | kmemdup(?:_nul)?) | (?:\w+)?alloc_skb(?:_ip_align)? | _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-improve-blank-line-after-declaration-test.patch checkpatch-prefer-ftrace-over-function-entry-exit-printks.patch checkpatch-improve-typecast_int_constant-test-message.patch checkpatch-add-kmalloc_array_node-to-unnecessary-oom-message-check.patch