diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7ba8fbbf9f1b..345879a305be 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2974,7 +2974,7 @@ sub process {
 				}
 				if (!defined $lines[$linenr]) {
 					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
-                                             "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline);
+					     "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline);
 				} elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\s*(.*)/i) {
 					WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF",
 					     "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]);
@@ -2997,8 +2997,8 @@ sub process {
 			if (ERROR("GERRIT_CHANGE_ID",
 			          "Remove Gerrit Change-Id's before submitting upstream\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
-                                fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);
-                        }
+				fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);
+			}
 		}
 
 # Check if the commit log is in a possible stack dump
@@ -3240,10 +3240,10 @@ sub process {
 				next if ($start_char =~ /^\S$/);
 				next if (index(" \t.,;?!", $end_char) == -1);
 
-                                # avoid repeating hex occurrences like 'ff ff fe 09 ...'
-                                if ($first =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{2,}\b/i) {
-                                        next if (!exists($allow_repeated_words{lc($first)}));
-                                }
+				# avoid repeating hex occurrences like 'ff ff fe 09 ...'
+				if ($first =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{2,}\b/i) {
+					next if (!exists($allow_repeated_words{lc($first)}));
+				}
 
 				if (WARN("REPEATED_WORD",
 					 "Possible repeated word: '$first'\n" . $herecurr) &&
@@ -4423,7 +4423,7 @@ sub process {
 			WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY",
 			     "char * array declaration might be better as static const\n" .
 				$herecurr);
-               }
+		}
 
 # check for sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) that could be ARRAY_SIZE(foo)
 		if ($line =~ m@\bsizeof\s*\(\s*($Lval)\s*\)@) {
@@ -5276,7 +5276,7 @@ sub process {
 		    $lines[$linenr - 3] !~ /^[ +]\s*$Ident\s*:/) {
 			WARN("RETURN_VOID",
 			     "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $hereprev);
-               }
+		}
 
 # if statements using unnecessary parentheses - ie: if ((foo == bar))
 		if ($perl_version_ok &&