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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 23f462f64a3f..7000adb5820c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ sub seed_camelcase_file {
sub is_maintained_obsolete {
my ($filename) = @_;
- return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
+ return 0 if (!$tree || !(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`;