Bug: font-family-fallbacks reports an error for `font-family: inherit`

[julienw]

Environment

ESLint version: v10.0.2
@eslint/css version: 0.14.1
Node version: v24.13
npm version: v11.9
Operating System: Debian stable

Which language are you using?

stylesheet

What did you do?

Configuration

import css from "@eslint/css";

export default [
    {
        files: ["**/*.css"],
        plugins: { css },
        language: "css/css",
        rules: {
            "css/font-family-fallbacks": "error",
        },
    },
];

body {
    font-family: inherit;
    color: red;
}

What did you expect to happen?

No error, inherit shouldn't trigger the rule

What actually happened?

Error:

  2:18  error  Use fallback fonts and a generic font last  css/font-family-fallbacks

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

https://github.com/julienw/eslint-csss-font-family-issue

Participation

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Additional comments

No response

[sethamus]

I agree this is a bug. I can work on this.

[DMartens]

This seems to be an oversight as this rule is motivated from the stylelint rule font-family-no-missing-generic-family-keyword which explicitly allows it.
A fix should also allow other keywords such as revert.
@sethamus feel free to open a PR for this.

[eslint-github-bot]

👋 Hi! This issue is being addressed in pull request #391. Thanks, @sethamus!