diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index da2ce602a7..f9f374d8f8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
-;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016–2021 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
@@ -3762,8 +3762,13 @@ from the module-init-tools project.")
                             (string-append "PREFIX=" prefix)
                             (string-append "SYSCONFDIR=" prefix "/etc")))
        #:test-target "test"))
-    (native-inputs (list go ;for the test suite
-                         pandoc)) ;to generate the manpage
+    (native-inputs
+      (list
+        ;; For the test suite.
+        cppcheck
+        go
+        ;; To generate the manpage.
+        pandoc))
     (home-page "https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom")
     (synopsis "Simple out of memory (OOM) daemon for the Linux kernel")
     (description "Early OOM is a minimalist out of memory (OOM) daemon that