Re: checkpatch.pl: false warning about "-p0 patch"

[Brian Norris]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 14:45 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Hello.
>
>> I have received what appears to be a false warning from checkpatch.pl when
>> checking a patch named 'b':
>>
>>     $ scripts/checkpatch.pl b
>>     WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch
>>
>>     total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 16 lines checked
>>
>>     b has style problems, please review.
>>
>>     If any of these errors are false positives, please report
>>     them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> It appears that I can trigger this warning with any arbitrary commit. The
>> following bash script gives me at least one warning for everything in Linus'
>> tree:
>>
>>   for i in {0..100}
>>   do
>>       git format-patch -1 HEAD~$i --stdout > b
>>       scripts/checkpatch.pl b
>>   done
>>
>> I have also seen this warning on patches with other names, but I'm not
>> reproducing that right now.
>
> checkpatch can use stdin as well as files/patches.
>
> Try this instead of creating a temporary file:
>
> for i in {0..100}
> do
>     git format-patch -1 --stdout HEAD~$1 | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -
> done

Thanks for the tip. This for-loop was just a litmus test to show that
checkpatch.pl is indeed failing simply because of the filename of 'b'.
So I would consider that a checkpatch.pl bug.

But now, I realized the problem is simply with the existence of a file
named 'b'. That is, checkpatch will give a warning for this:

  touch b
  git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
  WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch

  WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch

  WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch
  ...

Is that expected?

Brian
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