checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
Some find using utf-8 in commit logs inappropriate.
Some patch commit logs contain unintended utf-8 characters when doing
things like copy/pasting compilation output.
Look for the start of any commit log by skipping initial lines that look
like email headers and "From: " lines.
Stop looking for utf-8 at the first signature line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5ba679c8..5e93342 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -240,9 +240,8 @@
our $Type;
our $Declare;
-our $UTF8 = qr {
- [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII
- | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
+our $NON_ASCII_UTF8 = qr{
+ [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
| \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs
| [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte
| \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates
@@ -251,6 +250,11 @@
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16
}x;
+our $UTF8 = qr{
+ [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII
+ | $NON_ASCII_UTF8
+}x;
+
our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
(?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:8|16|32|64)|
atomic_t
@@ -1330,6 +1334,9 @@
my $signoff = 0;
my $is_patch = 0;
+ my $in_header_lines = 1;
+ my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch
+
our @report = ();
our $cnt_lines = 0;
our $cnt_error = 0;
@@ -1497,7 +1504,6 @@
if ($line =~ /^diff --git.*?(\S+)$/) {
$realfile = $1;
$realfile =~ s@^([^/]*)/@@;
-
} elsif ($line =~ /^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
$realfile = $1;
$realfile =~ s@^([^/]*)/@@;
@@ -1536,6 +1542,7 @@
# Check the patch for a signoff:
if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) {
$signoff++;
+ $in_commit_log = 0;
}
# Check signature styles
@@ -1613,6 +1620,21 @@
"Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
}
+# Check if it's the start of a commit log
+# (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename)
+ if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
+ $rawline !~ /^(commit\b|from\b|\w+:).+$/i) {
+ $in_header_lines = 0;
+ $in_commit_log = 1;
+ }
+
+# Still not yet in a patch, check for any UTF-8
+ if ($in_commit_log && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
+ $rawline =~ /$NON_ASCII_UTF8/) {
+ CHK("UTF8_BEFORE_PATCH",
+ "8-bit UTF-8 used in possible commit log\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed
next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);