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. Fixes: 6a0abce4c4cc ("sh: include: convert to SPDX identifiers") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto...@renesas.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms+rene...@verge.net.au> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstew...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> --- scripts/spdxcheck.py | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py +++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py @@ -175,7 +175,13 @@ import os self.lines_checked += 1 if line.find("SPDX-License-Identifier:") < 0: continue - expr = line.split(':')[1].replace('*/', '').strip() + expr = line.split(':')[1].strip() + # Remove trailing comment closure + if line.startswith('/*'): + expr = expr.rstrip('*/').strip() + # Special case for SH magic boot code files + if line.startswith('LIST \"'): + expr = expr.rstrip('\"').strip() self.parse(expr) self.spdx_valid += 1 #