+ checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch added to -mm tree

+ checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch

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From: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Subject: 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411191532.74381-1-wvw@google.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line
+++ a/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 &&
+		    $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ &&
 		    ($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 &&
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from wvw@google.com are

checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch