Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: report on author emails that are mangled by the mailing list

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:25:02 +0100
Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 42e1c50dd8..be2114a179 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1402,6 +1402,10 @@ sub process {
>  			$is_patch = 1;
>  		}
>  
> +		if ($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.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>