diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2bab92c67b83..d39d2c2066f9 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 721c1cb60e0546d2e71b9aa50426c94e69c6521a
+refs/heads/master: 83242e0c239aaa33e757584605f788ac1eca2f0f
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7c17e95bf36f..a305aa52b8b1 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ sub process {
 			# is the start of a diff block and this line starts
 			# ' *' then it is very likely a comment.
 			if (!defined $edge &&
-			    $rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s* \*(?:\s|$)@)
+			    $rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s*(?:\*\*+| \*)(?:\s|$)@)
 			{
 				$in_comment = 1;
 			}