UPSTREAM: checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line
Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize git's default
commit revert message and will complain about the hash format.
Add special audit for revert commit message line to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Bug: 37158168
Test: checkpatch.pl --patch [diff] and no longer see failure
Change-Id: I65cf9a46874621dd6d5c349d2d3ca3b862d61ba3
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1..a1a89b6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2529,6 +2529,7 @@
# 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 &&
+ $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ &&
($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 &&