The patch titled checkpatch: suppress errors triggered by short patch has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: suppress errors triggered by short patch From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> When the last hunk of a patch is short it will trigger errors from checkpatch: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 394. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 397. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) Avoid touching beyond the last line. Reported by Julien Brunel. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Julien Brunel <brunel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ sub ctx_statement_block { # context. if ($off >= $len) { for (; $remain > 0; $line++) { + last if (!defined $lines[$line]); next if ($lines[$line] =~ /^-/); $remain--; $loff = $len; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-make-setup_zone_migrate_reserve-aware-of-overlapping-nodes.patch mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.patch checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch checkpatch-values-double-ampersand-may-be-unary.patch checkpatch-conditional-indent-labels-have-different-indent-rules.patch checkpatch-switch-indent-allow-plain-return.patch checkpatch-add-tests-for-the-attribute-matcher.patch checkpatch-____cacheline_aligned-et-al-are-modifiers.patch checkpatch-complex-macros-fix-up-extension-handling.patch checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.patch checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.patch checkpatch-reduce-warnings-for-include-of-asm-fooh-to-check-from-arch-barc.patch checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch checkpatch-report-the-real-first-line-of-all-suspect-indents.patch checkpatch-suspect-indent-skip-over-preprocessor-label-and-blank-lines.patch checkpatch-%lx-tests-should-hand-%%-as-a-literal.patch checkpatch-report-the-correct-lines-for-single-statement-blocks.patch checkpatch-perform-indent-checks-on-perl.patch checkpatch-version-022.patch checkpatch-case-default-checks-should-only-check-changed-lines.patch checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch.patch checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly.patch checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files.patch checkpatch-suspect-indent-count-condition-lines-correctly.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks.patch checkpatch-version-023.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html