From e882dbfc248cf28d6afd6fc6d8db8be58a824158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:55:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3e2d9b0fe5a5d..b1befa2cec26f 100755
--- 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 &&
-- 
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