From: Andrew Morton ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #85: FILE: kernel/fork.c:624: +static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #94: FILE: kernel/fork.c:827: +static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #103: FILE: kernel/fork.c:850: +static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) WARNING: no space between function name and open parenthesis '(' #139: FILE: kernel/fork.c:1396: +static int fork_traceflag (unsigned clone_flags) Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff -puN kernel/fork.c~uninline-forkc-exitc-checkpatch-fixes kernel/fork.c --- a/kernel/fork.c~uninline-forkc-exitc-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/kernel/fork.c @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ struct fs_struct *copy_fs_struct(struct EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_fs_struct); -static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) +static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { if (clone_flags & CLONE_FS) { atomic_inc(¤t->fs->count); @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ int unshare_files(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL(unshare_files); -static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) +static int copy_sighand(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct sighand_struct *sig; @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_st kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); } -static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk) +static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct signal_struct *sig; int ret; @@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ struct task_struct * __cpuinit fork_idle return task; } -static int fork_traceflag (unsigned clone_flags) +static int fork_traceflag(unsigned clone_flags) { if (clone_flags & CLONE_UNTRACED) return 0; _