scripts: report on author emails that are mangled by the mailing list
In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the
list gets mangled such that it says
John Doe via Qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
This change is a result of workarounds for DMARC policies.
Subsystem maintainers accepting patches need to catch these and fix
them before sending pull requests, so a checkpatch.pl test is highly
desirable.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3765b0e..06ec14e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1402,6 +1402,10 @@
$is_patch = 1;
}
+ if ($line =~ /^Author: .*via Qemu-devel.*<qemu-devel\@nongnu.org>/) {
+ ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing list\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
#check the patch for a signoff:
if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) {
# This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report.
