On Wednesday, 16 January 2019 11.26.53 CET Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The SuperH boot code files use a magic format for the SPDX identifier
> comment:
> 
>   LIST "SPDX-License-Identifier: .... "
> 
> The trailing quotation mark is not stripped before the token parser is
> invoked and causes the scan to fail. Handle it gracefully.
[...]

This patch introduces a false positive when checking files with an ANSI-C 
style /* SPDX-License-Identifier: .... */ comment line.

    $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q -f include/linux/bug.h
    WARNING: 'SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */' is not supported in LICENSES/...
    #1: FILE: include/linux/bug.h:1:
    +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
    
    total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 79 lines checked

checkpatch.pl is already stripping the "/* " prefix and only sends the 
remaining "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */" via stdin to
scripts/spdxcheck.py. Thus the newly introduced check

> +                # Remove trailing comment closure
> +                if line.startswith('/*'):
> +                    expr = expr.rstrip('*/').strip()

doesn't match and thus the code doesn't remove the " */" at the end of the 
line.

Kind regards,
	Sven