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| author | Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> | 2021-09-07 19:59:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -0700 |
| commit | 046fc741e35e9dee7c7f7c4173ba3d79f938286f (patch) | |
| tree | 48bd1ce35d2cb25bb91ee3bcb364ff44b9600381 /scripts | |
| parent | d2af5aa6c036d3fd2c1ff3379ffe3e6805929952 (diff) | |
checkpatch: make email address check case insensitive
Instead of checkpatch requiring the patch author to exactly match the
signed-off-by tag, commit 48ca2d8ac8a1 ("checkpatch: add new warnings to
author signoff checks.") safely relaxed this requirement.
Although the local-part of an email address (local-part@domain), may be
case sensitive, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts
impedes interoperability and is discouraged. Mailbox domains follow
normal DNS rules and are hence not case sensitive. (Refer to
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-2.4.)
Further relax the patch author and signed-off-by tag comparison by making
the email address check case insensitive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210816112725.173206-1-zohar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index a65753c05a69..161ce7fe5d1e 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2909,10 +2909,10 @@ sub process { my ($email_name, $email_comment, $email_address, $comment1) = parse_email($ctx); my ($author_name, $author_comment, $author_address, $comment2) = parse_email($author); - if ($email_address eq $author_address && $email_name eq $author_name) { + if (lc $email_address eq lc $author_address && $email_name eq $author_name) { $author_sob = $ctx; $authorsignoff = 2; - } elsif ($email_address eq $author_address) { + } elsif (lc $email_address eq lc $author_address) { $author_sob = $ctx; $authorsignoff = 3; } elsif ($email_name eq $author_name) { |