1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bb88df2d001b..4680ccf7760c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ our $UTF8	= qr {
         |  \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2}     # plane 16
 }x;
 
+our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
+        (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)|
+        atomic_t
+)};
+
 our @typeList = (
         qr{void},
         qr{(?:unsigned\s+)?char},
@@ -159,7 +164,6 @@ our @typeList = (
         qr{float},
         qr{double},
         qr{bool},
-        qr{(?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)},
         qr{struct\s+$Ident},
         qr{union\s+$Ident},
         qr{enum\s+$Ident},
@@ -179,6 +183,7 @@ sub build_types {
                         (?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
                         (?:
                                 (?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
+                                (?:$typeTypedefs\b)|
                                 (?:${all}\b)
                         )
                         (?:\s+$Modifier|\s+const)*
@@ -1589,6 +1594,7 @@ sub process {
                 if ($line =~ /\btypedef\s/ &&
                     $line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+\(\s*\*?$Ident\s*\)\s*\(/ &&
                     $line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+$Ident\s*\(/ &&
+                    $line !~ /\b$typeTypedefs\b/ &&
                     $line !~ /\b__bitwise(?:__|)\b/) {
                         WARN("do not add new typedefs\n" . $herecurr);
                 }