[PATCH] checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line

From: Wei Wang
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 13:43:03 EST


From: Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize revert commits and
complains about the commit hash format.
Add special audit for revert commit to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index baa3c7be04ad..60c3b9e6a46b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2539,6 +2539,7 @@ sub process {
# Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
$line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink):/i &&
+ $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{12,40}\./ &&
($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i ||
($line =~ /(?:\s|^)[0-9a-f]{12,40}(?:[\s"'\(\[]|$)/i &&
$line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i &&
--
2.12.2.715.g7642488e1d-goog