The patch titled checkpatch: correctly stop scanning at the bottom of a hunk has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: correctly stop scanning at the bottom of a hunk From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We are allowing context scanning checks to apply against the first line of context outside at the end of the hunk. This can lead to false matches to patch names leading to various perl warnings. Correctly stop at the bottom of the hunk. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1234,7 +1234,6 @@ sub process { $linenr++; my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1]; - my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0); #extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied if ($line=~/^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@/) { @@ -1274,6 +1273,8 @@ sub process { $realcnt--; } + my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0); + #make up the handle for any error we report on this line $prefix = "$filename:$realline: " if ($emacs && $file); $prefix = "$filename:$linenr: " if ($emacs && !$file); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added.patch checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation.patch checkpatch-fix-__attribute__-matching.patch checkpatch-fix-false-export_symbol-warning.patch checkpatch-version-030.patch nodemask-make-nodemask_alloc-more-general.patch hugetlb-rework-hstate_next_node_-functions.patch hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions.patch hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions-fix.patch hugetlb-factor-init_nodemask_of_node.patch hugetlb-derive-huge-pages-nodes-allowed-from-task-mempolicy.patch hugetlb-add-generic-definition-of-numa_no_node.patch hugetlb-add-per-node-hstate-attributes.patch hugetlb-update-hugetlb-documentation-for-numa-controls.patch hugetlb-use-only-nodes-with-memory-for-huge-pages.patch mm-clear-node-in-n_high_memory-and-stop-kswapd-when-all-memory-is-offlined.patch hugetlb-handle-memory-hot-plug-events.patch hugetlb-offload-per-node-attribute-registrations.patch mm-add-gfp-flags-for-nodemask_alloc-slab-allocations.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