From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: ignore deleted lines for comment context
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:11:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250717011121.684303-1-adilger@dilger.ca> (raw)
Don't consider lines being removed by a patch as part of the context.
Otherwise, false "WARNING: memory barrier without comment" and similar
warnings can be reported when a comment exists on the previous line.
For example, a change like below was previously incorrectly flagged:
/* matched by smp_store_release() in some_function() */
- if (smp_load_acquire(&list->tail) == head))
+ if (smp_load_acquire(&list->tail) == head) && flags == 0)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 664f7b7a622c..dc90a0871a0e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1989,6 +1989,7 @@ sub ctx_locate_comment {
for (my $linenr = $first_line; $linenr < $end_line; $linenr++) {
my $line = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
#warn " $line\n";
+ next if ($line =~ /^-/); # ignore lines removed by patch
if ($linenr == $first_line and $line =~ m@^.\s*\*@) {
$in_comment = 1;
}
--
2.43.5
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