linux.git/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch v7.2-rc1

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-06-21T20:20:19+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "taskstats: fix TGID dead-thread stat retention" (Yiyang Chen)

   Fix a taskstats TGID aggregation bug where fields added in the TGID
   query path were not preserved after thread exit, and adds a kselftest
   covering the regression.

 - "lib/tests: string_helpers: Slight improvements" (Andy Shevchenko)

   Improve lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c a little

 - "lib/base64: decode fixes" (Josh Law)

   Address minor issues in lib/base64.c

 - "selftests/filelock: Make output more kselftestish" (Mark Brown)

   Make the output from the ofdlocks test a bit easier for tooling to
   work with. Also ignore the generated file

 - "uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection"
   (Yury Norov)

   Simplify the usercopy code by removing the selectability of inlining
   copy_{from,to}_user().

 - "ocfs2: validate inline xattr header consumers" (ZhengYuan Huang)

   Fix a number of possible issues in the ocfs2 xattr code

 - "lib and lib/cmdline enhancements" (Dmitry Antipov)

   Provide additional robustness checking in the cmdline handling code
   and its in-kernel testing and selftests

 - "cleanup the RAID6 P/Q library" (Christoph Hellwig)

   Clean up the RAID6 P/Q library to match the recent updates to the
   RAID 5 XOR library and other CRC/crypto libraries

 - "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata" (Michael
   Bommarito)

   Add three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so malformed
   on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies them
   into the in-core inode

 - "lib/raid: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()" (Mike
   Rapoport)

   Clean up the lib/raid code by using kmalloc() in more places

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (108 commits)
  ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write
  ocfs2: fix NULL h_transaction deref in ocfs2_assure_trans_credits
  lib: interval_tree_test: validate benchmark parameters
  ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters
  treewide: fix transposed "sign" typos and update spelling.txt
  ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec
  fat: reject BPB volumes whose data area starts beyond total sectors
  selftests/uevent: increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to avoid ENOBUFS on busy systems
  lib/test_firmware: allocate the configured into_buf size
  fs: efs: remove unneeded debug prints
  checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  MAINTAINERS: add Alexander as a kcov reviewer
  mailmap: update Alexander Sverdlin's Email addresses
  fs: fat: inode: replace sprintf() with scnprintf()
  ocfs2: fix out-of-bounds write in ocfs2_remove_refcount_extent
  ocfs2: fix race between ocfs2_control_install_private() and ocfs2_control_release()
  ocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open
  ocfs2: reject FITRIM ranges shorter than a cluster
  ocfs2: validate fast symlink target during inode read
  ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode()
  ...

checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:

2026-06-11T18:42:21+00:00

> The tag should be followed by a Closes: tag pointing to the report,
> unless the report is not available on the web. The Link: tag can be
> used instead of Closes: if the patch fixes a part of the issue(s)
> being reported.

According to Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, Link: is also
acceptable to follow a Reported-by:, if the patch fixes a part of the
issue(s) being reported.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260605-checkpatch-v1-1-8c68ae618513@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Cryolitia PukNgae 
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Cheng Nie 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: add check for function pointer arrays in declarations

2026-05-29T04:24:40+00:00

checkpatch did not allow function pointer arrays when testing
declaration blocks.

Add it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/eb62763085eb42193a611bca00a62d6f0ae72e1e.1776530118.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: add option to not force /* */ for SPDX

2026-05-29T04:24:39+00:00

Add option --spdx-cxx-comments to not force C comments (/* */) for SPDX,
but allow also C++ comments (//).

As documented in aa19a176df95d6, this is required for some old toolchains
still have older assembler tools which cannot handle C++ style comments. 
This avoids forcing this for projects which vendored checkpatch.pl (e.g. 
LTP or u-boot).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260421211408.383972-2-pvorel@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel 
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass 
Acked-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: allow passing config directory

2026-05-29T04:24:39+00:00

checkpatch.pl searches for .checkpatch.conf in $CWD, $HOME and
$CWD/.scripts.  Allow passing a single directory via CHECKPATCH_CONFIG_DIR
environment variable (empty value is ignored).  This allows to directly
use project configuration file for projects which vendored checkpatch.pl
(e.g.  LTP or u-boot).

Although it'd be more convenient for user to have --conf-dir option
(instead of using environment variable), code would get ugly because
options from the configuration file needs to be read before processing
command line options with Getopt::Long.

While at it, document directories and environment variable in -h help
and HTML doc.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260421211408.383972-1-pvorel@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel 
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass 
Acked-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: Undeprecate rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace()

2026-05-24T07:39:47+00:00

It turns out that there are BPF use cases that rely on nesting RCU
Tasks Trace readers.  These use cases are well-served by the old
rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() functions that maintain
a nesting counter in the task_struct structure.  But these use cases incur
a performance penalty when using the shiny new rcu_read_lock_tasks_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_tasks_trace() functions, which nest in the same way
that SRCU does.

This means that rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace()
will be with us for some time.  Therefore, remove the checkpatch.pl
deprecation.

Also, the rcu_read_lock_tasks_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_tasks_trace()
functions are intended for use only by BPF.  Therefore, add them to
the list of functions that checkpatch complains about outside of BPF
(and of course, RCU).

Reported-by: Puranjay Mohan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)

Merge tag 'spdx-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx

2026-04-24T20:30:54+00:00

Pull SPDX update from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single SPDX-like change for 7.1-rc1. It explicitly allows
  the use of SPDX-FileCopyrightText which has been used already in many
  files.

  At the same time, update checkpatch to catch any "non allowed" spdx
  identifiers as we don't want to go overboard here.

  This has been in linux-next for a long time with no reported problems"

* tag 'spdx-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText

Merge tag 'devicetree-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux

2026-04-17T21:09:02+00:00

Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
 "DT core:

   - Cleanup of the reserved memory code to keep CMA specifics in CMA
     code

   - Add and convert several users to new of_machine_get_match() helper

   - Validate nul termination in string properties

   - Update dtc to upstream v1.7.2-69-g53373d135579

   - Limit matching reserved memory devices to /reserved-memory nodes

   - Fix some UAF in unittests

   - Remove Baikal SoC bus driver

   - Fix false DT_SPLIT_BINDING_PATCH checkpatch warning

   - Allow fw_devlink device-tree on x86

   - Fix kerneldoc return description for of_property_count_elems_of_size()

  DT bindings:

   - Add fsl,imx25-aips, fsl,imx25-tcq, qcom,eliza-pdc,
     qcom,eliza-spmi-pmic-arb, qcom,hawi-imem, qcom,milos-imem,
     qcom,hawi-pdc, and lg,sw49410 bindings

   - Convert arm,vexpress-scc to DT schema

   - Deprecate Qualcomm generic CPU compatibles. Add Apple M3 CPU cores.

   - Move some dual-link display panels to the dual-link schema

   - Drop mux controller node name constraints

   - Remove Baikal SoC bus bindings

   - Fix a false warning in the thermal trip node binding"

* tag 'devicetree-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (39 commits)
  dt-bindings: display: panel: panel-simple: Add lg,sw49410 compatible
  dt-bindings: display: ti, am65x-dss: Fix AM62L DSS reg and clock constraints
  dt-bindings: display: simple: Move Innolux G156HCE-L01 panel to dual-link
  dt-bindings: display: simple: Move AUO 21.5" FHD to dual-link
  dt-bindings: thermal: Fix false warning with 'phandle' in trips nodes
  of: unittest: fix use-after-free in testdrv_probe()
  of: unittest: fix use-after-free in of_unittest_changeset()
  dt-bindings: qcom,pdc: document the Hawi Power Domain Controller
  dt-bindings: ARM: arm,vexpress-scc: convert to DT schema
  drivers/of: fdt: validate flat DT string properties before string use
  drivers/of: fdt: validate stdout-path properties before parsing them
  dt-bindings: sram: Document qcom,hawi-imem compatible
  dt-bindings: sram: Allow multiple-word prefixes to sram subnode
  dt-bindings: sram: Document qcom,milos-imem
  scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.7.2-69-g53373d135579
  of: property: Allow fw_devlink device-tree on x86
  dt-bindings: arm: cpus: Add Apple M3 CPU core compatibles
  dt-bindings: display: lt8912b: Drop redundant endpoint properties
  dt-bindings: opp-v2: Fix example 3 CPU reg value
  dt-bindings: connector: add pd-disable dependency
  ...

checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs

2026-04-15T09:15:02+00:00

Limit checkpatch warnings for normally-const structs by excluding patterns
consistent with forward declarations.

For example, the forward declaration `struct regmap_access_table;` in a
header file currently generates a warning recommending that it is
generally declared as const; however, this would apply a useless type
qualifier in the empty declaration `const struct regmap_access_table;`,
and subsequently generate compiler warnings.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260331181509.1258693-1-tknelms@google.com
Signed-off-by: Taylor Nelms 
Acked-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: add support for Assisted-by tag

2026-03-28T04:19:45+00:00

The Assisted-by tag was introduced in
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst for attributing AI tool
contributions to kernel patches.  However, checkpatch.pl did not recognize
this tag, causing two issues:

  WARNING: Non-standard signature: Assisted-by:
  ERROR: Unrecognized email address: 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION'

Fix this by:
1. Adding Assisted-by to the recognized $signature_tags list
2. Skipping email validation for Assisted-by lines since they use the
   AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format instead of an email address
3. Warning when the Assisted-by value doesn't match the expected format

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260311215818.518930-1-sashal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche 
Acked-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton