[PATCH v2 1/1] checkpatch: add MA_STATE to declaration_macros

From: Jim Cromie
Date: Sun Nov 09 2025 - 10:33:08 EST


MA_STATE is used repeatedly as a declaration, add it to the list.

I left out the $Storage regex component, since I saw no use-cases
needing it, via: $> grep -r -B1 '\bMA_STATE'

This change to checkpatch --strict behavior fixes the following
lkp-robot report, reproduced locally.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild/202511071306.OJpTf7fK-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 - fix broken closes link
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e722dd6fa8ef..4b5e2e64dece 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1096,7 +1096,8 @@ our $declaration_macros = qr{(?x:
(?:$Storage\s+)?(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]*_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-9]+){1,6}\s*\(|
(?:$Storage\s+)?[HLP]?LIST_HEAD\s*\(|
(?:SKCIPHER_REQUEST|SHASH_DESC|AHASH_REQUEST)_ON_STACK\s*\(|
- (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(
+ (?:$Storage\s+)?(?:XA_STATE|XA_STATE_ORDER)\s*\(|
+ (?:MA_STATE)\s*\(
)};

our %allow_repeated_words = (
--
2.51.1