The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve parse_email signature checking has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-improve-parse_email-signature-checking.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve parse_email signature checking Bare email addresses with non alphanumeric characters require escape quoting before being substituted in the parse_email routine. e.g. Reported-by: syzbot+bbd8e9a06452cc48059b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do so. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518631805.3678.12.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-parse_email-signature-checking scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-parse_email-signature-checking +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ sub parse_email { } elsif ($formatted_email =~ /(\S+\@\S+)(.*)$/) { $address = $1; $comment = $2 if defined $2; - $formatted_email =~ s/$address.*$//; + $formatted_email =~ s/\Q$address\E.*$//; $name = $formatted_email; $name = trim($name); $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-add-a-strict-test-for-structs-with-bool-member-definitions.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html