diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 56345f3dadf2..e0c06c19021c 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 000d1cc1829f938c87402fc2fd4bb5e8daed6b52
+refs/heads/master: 34d99219726ff4d3425b360d1e8d081627a73a00
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05777ab818f1..8dd720ac0069 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/trunk/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