Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch: Improve the check for authors mangled by the mailing list

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Dienstag, 16. Februar 2021 08:15:12 CET Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index e47ad878d8..7f194c842b 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ sub process {
>                       $is_patch = 1;
>               }
> 
> -             if ($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); }

I would probably generalize the pattern even a bit more:

                if ($line =~ /^(Author|From): .*<qemu-devel\@nongnu.org>/) {

Because mailman's precise sender-rewrite prefix changed couple times. But for 
now the change above will do as well of course.

Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck