From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
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.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/f5d8124e54a50480b0a9fa638787bc29b6e09854.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921085436.63003-1-dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-extend-author-signed-off-by-check-for-split-from-header
+++ a/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);
_
