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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2018-08-21 21:58:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 10:52:49 -0700
commit56294112791ac11c6fcdc6544f1381f9272202db (patch)
tree8ce70b62ed30406ba7d32700d7cf30800f54ec5c /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent490b292c834c5e72057f4315ef915692cbd6defd (diff)
checkpatch: fix SPDX license check with --root=<path>
checkpatch uses the in-kernel script spdxcheck.py to validate the specific license in a file or script. This check can currently fail for a couple reasons: o spdxcheck.py assumes the existence of git tree that may not exist for a bare source tree from something like a tarball o the spdxcheck.py must be run from the top level root directory So add a git existence test and set the subprocess subdirectory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b32864324ae9c92948b002ec4c0c22409ed98f1.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> Tested-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 25adf9811a2c..eced9b303995 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -852,9 +852,10 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete {
sub is_SPDX_License_valid {
my ($license) = @_;
- return 1 if (!$tree || which("python") eq "" || !(-e "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py"));
+ return 1 if (!$tree || which("python") eq "" || !(-e "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py") || !(-e "$root/.git"));
- my $status = `echo "$license" | python $root/scripts/spdxcheck.py -`;
+ my $root_path = abs_path($root);
+ my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" | python scripts/spdxcheck.py -`;
return 0 if ($status ne "");
return 1;
}