Commit 7e51f197 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: check for duplicate signatures

Emit a warning when a signature is used more than once.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d62a201f
......@@ -1544,6 +1544,7 @@ sub process {
my %suppress_export;
my $suppress_statement = 0;
my %signatures = ();
# Pre-scan the patch sanitizing the lines.
# Pre-scan the patch looking for any __setup documentation.
......@@ -1793,6 +1794,17 @@ sub process {
"email address '$email' might be better as '$suggested_email$comment'\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# Check for duplicate signatures
my $sig_nospace = $line;
$sig_nospace =~ s/\s//g;
$sig_nospace = lc($sig_nospace);
if (defined $signatures{$sig_nospace}) {
WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
"Duplicate signature\n" . $herecurr);
} else {
$signatures{$sig_nospace} = 1;
}
}
# Check for wrappage within a valid hunk of the file
......
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