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/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
olifre · May 9, 2017 · e882dbf · e882dbf
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diff --git 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 &&
+		    $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ &&
 		    ($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 &&