[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve SPDX license check for script files

Mrinal Pandey mrinalmni at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 11:50:06 UTC 2020


In all the script files, SPDX license identifier is expected on the second
line, the first line being the shebang.

The diff content includes the SPDX licensing information but excludes the
shebang when a change is made to a script file in commit 37f8173dd849
("locking/atomics: Flip fallbacks and  instrumentation") and commit
075c8aa79d54 ("selftests: forwarding: tc_actions.sh: add matchall mirror
test"). In these cases checkpatch issues a false positive warning:
"Misplaced SPDX-License-Identifier tag - use line 1 instead".

I noticed this false positive, while running checkpatch on the set of
commits from v5.7 to v5.8-rc1 of the kernel, on the said commits.
This false positive exists in checkpatch since commit a8da38a9cf0e
("checkpatch: add test for SPDX-License-Identifier on wrong line #")
when the corresponding rule was first added.

Currently, if checkpatch finds a shebang in line 1, it expects the
license identifier in line 2. However, this doesn't work when a shebang
isn't found on the line 1.

Reduce the number of false warnings for such patches on scripts by
checking the permissions of the file.

Signed-off-by: Mrinal Pandey <mrinalmni at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4c820607540b..695300839f48 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3166,6 +3166,10 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for using SPDX license tag at beginning of files
+		my $filepermissions = `stat -c "%a" $realfile`;
+		if (int(substr($filepermissions, 0, 1)) % 2) {
+			$checklicenseline = 2;
+		}
 		if ($realline == $checklicenseline) {
 			if ($rawline =~ /^[ \+]\s*\#\!\s*\//) {
 				$checklicenseline = 2;
-- 
2.25.1

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