checkpatch: complain about executable files
Complain about files with an executable bit set that are not in a scripts/
directory and are not type .pl, .py, .awk, or .sh
Based on an initial patch from Stephen.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b8b03aa..9cdd147 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1583,7 +1583,8 @@
# Check for incorrect file permissions
if ($line =~ /^new (file )?mode.*[7531]\d{0,2}$/) {
my $permhere = $here . "FILE: $realfile\n";
- if ($realfile =~ /(Makefile|Kconfig|\.c|\.h|\.S|\.tmpl)$/) {
+ if ($realfile !~ m@scripts/@ &&
+ $realfile !~ /\.(py|pl|awk|sh)$/) {
ERROR("EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS",
"do not set execute permissions for source files\n" . $permhere);
}
