[PATCH] checkpatch: avoid warning about Possible repeated word: 'Google'

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Oct 13 2023 - 13:27:49 EST


syzbot stack traces often come with the following line:

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine...

This generates the repeated word warning from checkpatch.
It hit 49 times in the last 6 months in networking
(false-positive rate of 0.34%). Mute the warning for "Google",
there's no other word which comes close to being this clear
cut false-positive in our traffic.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
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CC: apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx
CC: lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx
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scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7d16f863edf1..c99f8f93cb4c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3524,6 +3524,8 @@ sub process {

next if (lc($first) ne lc($second));
next if ($first eq 'long');
+ # syzbot reports contain "Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine"
+ next if ($first eq 'Google');

# check for character before and after the word matches
my $start_char = '';
--
2.41.0