[PATCH] checkpatch: avoid warning about Possible repeated word: 'Google'

[PATCH] checkpatch: avoid warning about Possible repeated word: 'Google'

[Jakub Kicinski]

syzbot stack traces often come with the following line:

 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine...

This generates the repeated word warning from checkpatch.
It hit 49 times in the last 6 months in networking
(false-positive rate of 0.34%). Mute the warning for "Google",
there's no other word which comes close to being this clear
cut false-positive in our traffic.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
CC: apw@canonical.com
CC: joe@perches.com
CC: dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
CC: lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7d16f863edf1..c99f8f93cb4c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3524,6 +3524,8 @@ sub process {
 
 				next if (lc($first) ne lc($second));
 				next if ($first eq 'long');
+				# syzbot reports contain "Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine"
+				next if ($first eq 'Google');
 
 				# check for character before and after the word matches
 				my $start_char = '';
-- 
2.41.0

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid warning about Possible repeated word: 'Google'

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 10:27 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> syzbot stack traces often come with the following line:
> 
>  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine...

If you must, you must, but I wonder if code to ignore
syzbot blocks might be more sensible.  I don't see
obvious syzbot start/end block markers though.


> This generates the repeated word warning from checkpatch.
> It hit 49 times in the last 6 months in networking
> (false-positive rate of 0.34%). Mute the warning for "Google",
> there's no other word which comes close to being this clear
> cut false-positive in our traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
> CC: apw@canonical.com
> CC: joe@perches.com
> CC: dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
> CC: lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 7d16f863edf1..c99f8f93cb4c 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3524,6 +3524,8 @@ sub process {
>  
>  				next if (lc($first) ne lc($second));
>  				next if ($first eq 'long');
> +				# syzbot reports contain "Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine"
> +				next if ($first eq 'Google');
>  
>  				# check for character before and after the word matches
>  				my $start_char = '';