Some lines in a commit log appear to be commit SHA1 ids like:

  ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 0123456789ab ("commit description")'
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/40e03fd7aaf1f55c75d787128d6d17c5a71226c2.1464358556.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com

Reduce the false positives.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eda977eaa8328fef42bb3c87935d97e10ea8ff67.1464384023.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The --git <commit-count> shortcut can be confused by a tag with a dash
like v4.4-rc1.

Improve the test to verify the <commit-count> expression ends with a
dash followed by a numeric value.

Improve the git log result to verify the "<sha1> <subject>" output
as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c4a3f759291d967641860c3a54bb81177f34325f.1462711962.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

checkpatch currently calls git log multiple times to first get the
<revision range> sha1 values and again to get the subject for each
individual sha1 commit.

Always get the sha1 and subject at the same time instead.  Store the
subject in a sha1 hash to avoid the second git log exec.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/274efab2332ad2308ab5de85a95d255f6e2de5f3.1462711962.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It's sometimes useful to scan already committed patches.

Add --git <revision range> to scan specific or multiple commits.

Single commits are scanned with
	--git <rev>
Multiple commits are scanned with
	--git <range>
	--git <commit>-<count>

[joe@perches.com:
o Don't exec git for each <commit>-<count>,
  use a single "git log -<count> <commit>"
o Consolidate the git exec for the <range> and <commit>-<count> variants
o Output 12 character commit hash ids
o Don't scan git commit merges
o Use -M to reduce the size of rename commits]

Signed-off-by: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The message types are not currently knowable without reading the code.
Add a mechanism to see what they are.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The --fix option is relatively unknown and underutilized.

Add some text to show that it's available when style defects are found.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a test for use of ACCESS_ONCE that could be written using READ_ONCE or
WRITE_ONCE.

--fix it too if desired.

The WRITE_ONCE fixes are less correct than the coccinelle script below as
checkpatch cannot have a completely correct "expression" mechanism because
checkpatch works on patches and not complete files.

$ cat access_once.cocci
@@
expression e1;
expression e2;
@@

-       ACCESS_ONCE(e1) = e2
+       WRITE_ONCE(e1, e2)

@@
expression e1;
@@

-       ACCESS_ONCE(e1)
+       READ_ONCE(e1)

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It's somewhat common and in general a defect for c90 keywords to
not start on a tabstop.

Add a test for this condition and warn when it occurs.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A "." dereference to an all uppercase structure member can be
incorrectly reported as a CONSTANT_COMPARISON.

ie: "if (table[i].PANELID == tempdx)"

Fix it by checking for "." before the constant test.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Using #if defined CONFIG_<FOO> || defined CONFIG_<FOO>_MODULE is
more verbose than necessary and IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_<FOO>) is preferred.

So add a test and a message for it.

--fix it to if desired.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>