checkpatch · Maintained

Maintainers

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

Paths

• F scripts/checkpatch.pl

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-mm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD30d [RFC V2 1/3] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pgtable entries
  2026-06-10 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies IN LINUX-NEXT: 1 (1M) [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-06-05 · Cryolitia PukNgae <hidden>
• STALE61d Re: [RFC V2 01/14] mm: Abstract printing of pxd_val()
  2026-05-21 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-04-01 · Cryolitia PukNgae via B4 Relay <devnull+cryolitia.uniontech.com@kernel.org>
• STALE198d [PATCH RESEND v2] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-01-13 · Cryolitia PukNgae via B4 Relay <devnull+cryolitia.uniontech.com@kernel.org>
• STALE186d [PATCH v5 05/36] checkpatch: Warn about context_unsafe() without comment
  2025-12-19 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE157d [PATCH v6 2/5] checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  2025-12-03 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE232d [PATCH v5 3/4] checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  2025-11-22 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE225d [PATCH v4 05/35] checkpatch: Warn about context_unsafe() without comment
  2025-11-20 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE93d [PATCH v3 07/22] checkpatch: Warn on page table access without accessors
  2025-11-13 · Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
• STALE260d [PATCH v3 05/35] checkpatch: Warn about capability_unsafe() without comment
  2025-09-18 · Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
• STALE403d [RFC 1/2] lib/vsprintf: Add support for pte_t
  2025-06-18 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
• STALE1405d Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api
  2022-09-25 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE1402d LANDED [PATCH v2 2/2] checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants
  2022-09-23 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1409d [PATCH v1 01/12] mm: rectify MAX_ORDER semantics to be the largest page order from buddy allocator
  2022-09-22 · Zi Yan <hidden>
• STALE1397d [PATCH v1 3/3] checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants
  2022-09-20 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1433d [PATCH RFC 2/2] checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and friends
  2022-08-24 · David Hildenbrand <hidden>
• STALE1439d [RFC PATCH v2 02/12] mm: rectify MAX_ORDER semantics to be the largest page order from buddy allocator
  2022-08-11 · Zi Yan <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [GIT PULL] MM updates for 5.20-rc1
  2022-08-06 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• STALE1760d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 2/8] Compiler Attributes: add __alloc_size() for better bounds checking
  2021-09-30 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1773d [PATCH v2 2/7] checkpatch: Add __alloc_size() to known $Attribute
  2021-08-18 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE1802d Re: [PATCH 2/5] slab: Add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking
  2021-08-18 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts
  2021-02-06 · Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
• STALE2002d [PATCH] checkpatch: Don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts
  2021-02-04 · Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
• STALE2208d [PATCH v2 14/16] checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
  2020-06-20 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2237d [PATCH 08/10] checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
  2020-06-03 · Kees Cook <hidden>
• STALE2537d [PATCH 1/4] checkpatch: revert broken NOTIFIER_HEAD check
  2019-08-21 · John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
• STALE2686d [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Remove support for %pF and %pf in favour of %pS and %ps
  2019-03-22 · Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 1/1] MACRO_ARG_REUSE in checkpatch.pl is confused about * in typeof
  2018-04-01 · <hidden>
• STALE3147d Re: [PATCH v4 72/73] xfs: Convert mru cache to XArray
  2017-12-14 · Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Suppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link:
  2026-04-01 · Cryolitia PukNgae via B4 Relay <devnull+cryolitia.uniontech.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE61d Re: [RFC V2 01/14] mm: Abstract printing of pxd_val()
  2026-05-21 · Anshuman Khandual <hidden>