The patch titled From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-complain-about-executable-files.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: Complain about executable files Complain about files with an executable bit set that are not in a scripts/ directory and are not type .pl, .py, .awk, or .sh Based on an initial patch from Stephen. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-complain-about-executable-files scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-complain-about-executable-files +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1583,7 +1583,8 @@ sub process { # Check for incorrect file permissions if ($line =~ /^new (file )?mode.*[7531]\d{0,2}$/) { my $permhere = $here . "FILE: $realfile\n"; - if ($realfile =~ /(Makefile|Kconfig|\.c|\.h|\.S|\.tmpl)$/) { + if ($realfile !~ m@scripts/@ && + $realfile !~ /\.(py|pl|awk|sh)$/) { ERROR("EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS", "do not set execute permissions for source files\n" . $permhere); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch get_maintainer-use-filename-only-regex-match-for-tegra.patch get_maintainer-use-filename-only-regex-match-for-tegra-fix.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-reuse-of-krealloc-arg.patch checkpatch-prefer-seq_puts-to-seq_printf.patch checkpatch-complain-about-executable-files.patch kexec-fix-wrong-types-of-some-local-variables.patch kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic.patch kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic-fix.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