The patch titled Subject: mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes Date: Wed Oct 11 10:07:07 AM PDT 2023 ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #52: FILE: block/bdev.c:295: +static struct kmem_cache * bdev_cachep __ro_after_init; total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 383 lines checked NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace. ./patches/mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init.patch has style problems, please review. NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/bdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/block/bdev.c~mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/block/bdev.c @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(thaw_bdev); */ static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_MUTEX(bdev_lock); -static struct kmem_cache * bdev_cachep __ro_after_init; +static struct kmem_cache *bdev_cachep __ro_after_init; static struct inode *bdev_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-shmem-fix-race-in-shmem_undo_range-w-thp-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-2.patch mm-add-printf-attribute-to-shrinker_debugfs_name_alloc-fix.patch mark-stuff-as-__ro_after_init-checkpatch-fixes.patch