diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2b404317daea43356cfa9556eb57c236ee48ca71..54b782fab4fd7dade07bf8ef4000e7e60bcee740 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2797,7 +2797,10 @@ sub process {
 # Only applies when adding the entry originally, after that we do not have
 # sufficient context to determine whether it is indeed long enough.
 		if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
-		    $line =~ /^\+\s*config\s+/) {
+		    # 'choice' is usually the last thing on the line (though
+		    # Kconfig supports named choices), so use a word boundary
+		    # (\b) rather than a whitespace character (\s)
+		    $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice)\b/) {
 			my $length = 0;
 			my $cnt = $realcnt;
 			my $ln = $linenr + 1;
@@ -2822,7 +2825,13 @@ sub process {
 				$f =~ s/#.*//;
 				$f =~ s/^\s+//;
 				next if ($f =~ /^$/);
-				if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/) {
+
+				# This only checks context lines in the patch
+				# and so hopefully shouldn't trigger false
+				# positives, even though some of these are
+				# common words in help texts
+				if ($f =~ /^\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice|endchoice|
+						  if|endif|menu|endmenu|source)\b/x) {
 					$is_end = 1;
 					last;
 				}