UPSTREAM: 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.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Bug: 37158168
Test: checkpatch.pl --patch [diff] and no longer see failure
Change-Id: I65cf9a46874621dd6d5c349d2d3ca3b862d61ba3

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2b3c228..e701477 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2348,6 +2348,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
                if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
+                   $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ &&
                    ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i ||
                     ($line =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{12,40}\b/i &&
                      $line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i &&