Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags

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On 30.03.23 20:13, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> "Link:" and "Closes:" tags have to be used with public URLs.
> 
> It is difficult to make sure the link is public but at least we can
> verify the tag is followed by 'http(s):'.
> 
> With that, we avoid such a tag that is not allowed [1]:
> 
>   Closes: <number>
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHk-=wh0v1EeDV3v8TzK81nDC40=XuTdY2MCr0xy3m3FiBV3+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
> +# Check for misuse of the link tags
> +		if ($in_commit_log &&
> +		    $line =~ /^\s*(\w+:)\s*(\S+)/) {
> +			my $tag = $1;
> +			my $value = $2;
> +			if ($tag =~ /^$link_tags_search$/ && $value !~ /^https?:/) {
> +				WARN("COMMIT_LOG_WRONG_LINK",
> +				     "'$tag' should be followed by a public http(s) link\n" . $herecurr);
> +			}
> +		}
> +

I must be missing something here, but it looks to me like this is
checked twice now. See this line in patch2 (which is changed there, but
the check itself remains):

> } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ m{^link:\s*https?://}i) {

Ciao, Thorsten



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