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 <berra...@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. -- 2.17.1