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checkpatch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
• M Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Paths

• F scripts/checkpatch.pl

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday PENDING · 2 of 9 reviewed [PATCH v2 0/9] Add __must_init and require explicit kobj_type::release
  2026-10-27 22:39 · 1 reply in 7d · Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-27
• Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-27
• Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-10-27
• Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-10-27

Recent patches

Most-recent 29 patches in this subsystem on linux-hardening, ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 1/9] Compiler Attributes: Add __must_init macro
  2026-10-27 · Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add vmalloc() and vzalloc() to alloc with multiplies check
  2026-10-19 · Iurii Trukhin <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH] checkpatch: add vmalloc() and vzalloc() to alloc with multiplies check
  2026-10-15 · Iurii Trukhin <hidden>
• COOLING12d IN LINUX-NEXT: 2 (2M) [PATCH 1/2] Compiler Attributes: Add __require_explicit_initialization macro
  2026-10-14 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH 01/11] Compiler Attributes: Add __require_explicit_initialization macro
  2026-10-13 · Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
• STALE245d LANDED [PATCH v6 2/5] checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  2025-12-03 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE319d [PATCH v5 3/4] checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  2025-11-22 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE908d [PATCH v6] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-04-29 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE917d [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-04-22 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE925d [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-04-08 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE935d Re: [PATCH v5][next] integrity: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
  2024-04-05 · Gustavo A. R. Silva <hidden>
• STALE956d [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-03-15 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE977d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-02-21 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE979d [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for snprintf to scnprintf
  2024-02-21 · Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
• STALE1139d Re: [PATCH][next] checkpatch: add a couple new alloc functions to alloc with multiplies check
  2023-09-12 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE1139d [PATCH][next] checkpatch: add a couple new alloc functions to alloc with multiplies check
  2023-09-12 · Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• STALE1244d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5] checkpatch: Check for 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-06-01 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1244d [PATCH v4] checkpatch: Check for 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-05-31 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1246d [PATCH v3] checkpatch: Check for 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-05-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1250d [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Warn about 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-05-26 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Check for strcpy and strncpy too
  2023-05-26 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn about 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-05-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE1258d LANDED [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn about 0-length and 1-element arrays
  2023-05-17 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1259d LANDED [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for strcpy and strncpy too
  2023-05-17 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1491d [PATCH] checkpatch: Don't count URLs for "line too long"
  2022-09-27 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1645d [PATCH][next] checkpatch: add new alloc functions to alloc with multiplies check
  2022-04-26 · Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• STALE1848d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 2/8] Compiler Attributes: add __alloc_size() for better bounds checking
  2021-09-30 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1861d [PATCH v2 2/7] checkpatch: Add __alloc_size() to known $Attribute
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1889d Re: [PATCH 2/5] slab: Add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking
  2021-08-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>