From e7f929f3ca9ecadb7d38340345920af49e09eb6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dwaipayan Ray Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:12:15 -0700 Subject: checkpatch: extend author Signed-off-by check for split From: header Checkpatch did not handle cases where the author From: header was split into multiple lines. The author identity could not be resolved and checkpatch generated a false NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF warning. A typical example is commit e33bcbab16d1 ("tee: add support for session's client UUID generation"). When checkpatch was run on this commit, it displayed: "WARNING:NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF: Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author ''" This was due to split header lines not being handled properly and the author himself wrote in commit cd2614967d8b ("checkpatch: warn if missing author Signed-off-by"): "Split From: headers are not fully handled: only the first part is compared." Support split From: headers by correctly parsing the header extension lines. RFC 5322, Section-2.2.3 stated that each extended line must start with a WSP character (a space or htab). The solution was therefore to concatenate the lines which start with a WSP to get the correct long header. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn Acked-by: Joe Perches Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/f5d8124e54a50480b0a9fa638787bc29b6e09854.camel@perches.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921085436.63003-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 360ae4b84ee3..f40a81f24d43 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2679,6 +2679,10 @@ sub process { # Check the patch for a From: if (decode("MIME-Header", $line) =~ /^From:\s*(.*)/) { $author = $1; + my $curline = $linenr; + while(defined($rawlines[$curline]) && ($rawlines[$curline++] =~ /^[ \t]\s*(.*)/)) { + $author .= $1; + } $author = encode("utf8", $author) if ($line =~ /=\?utf-8\?/i); $author =~ s/"//g; $author = reformat_email($author); -- cgit