From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsmnj-00046F-8K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:25:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsmna-0000rc-IU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:25:11 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:44590 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsmna-0000qB-2O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:25:06 -0400 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:25:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20180823102502.28122-1-berrange@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: report on author emails that are mangled by the mailing list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Peter Maydell , =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the list gets mangled such that it says John Doe via Qemu-devel 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. Berrang=C3=A9 --- 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 { $is_patch =3D 1; } =20 + if ($line =3D~ /^Author: .*via Qemu-devel.*/) = { + ERROR("Author email address is mangled by the mailing list\n" . $h= erecurr); + } + #check the patch for a signoff: if ($line =3D~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) { # This is a signoff, if ugly, so do not double report. --=20 2.17.1