1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05777ab818f1..8dd720ac0069 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1609,8 +1609,8 @@ sub process {
                         my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, length($utf8_prefix)) . "^";
                         my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n";
 
-                        ERROR("INVALID_UTF8",
-                              "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
+                        CHK("INVALID_UTF8",
+                            "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
                 }
 
 # ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed