scripts/checkpatch: Improve the check for authors mangled by the mailing list
There were recently some patches on the list which had their "From:"
line mangled like this:
From: qemu_oss--- via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Since our test in the checkpatch.pl script did not trigger here, the
patches finally also ended up in a pull request, with the wrong author
set. So let's improve the regular expression to also complain on
these new patterns, too.
Message-Id: <20210216071512.1199827-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e47ad87..7f194c8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@
$is_patch = 1;
}
- if ($line =~ /^Author: .*via Qemu-devel.*<qemu-devel\@nongnu.org>/) {
+ if ($line =~ /^(Author|From): .* via .*<qemu-devel\@nongnu.org>/) {
ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing list\n" . $herecurr);
}
