Change get_maintainer to use anonymous function instead of eval(). Using a anonymous function is safer than doing eval on a string. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2014-05-26 13:23:00.480939284 -0700 +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2014-05-26 13:23:45.925291872 -0700 @@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ my $rfc822_char = '[\\000-\\377]'; my %VCS_cmds_git = ( name => 'git', execute_cmd => \&git_execute_cmd, - available => '(which("git") ne "") && (-e ".git")', - + available => sub { + return (which("git") ne "") && (-e ".git"); + }, find_signers_cmd => "git log --no-color --follow --since=\$email_git_since " . '--numstat --no-merges ' @@ -129,7 +130,9 @@ my %VCS_cmds_git = ( my %VCS_cmds_hg = ( name => 'hg', execute_cmd => \&hg_execute_cmd, - available => '(which("hg") ne "" ) && ( -d ".hg" )', + available => sub { + return (which("hg") ne "" ) && ( -d ".hg" ); + }, find_signers_cmd => "hg log --date=\$email_hg_since " . "--template='HgCommit: {node}\\n" . "HgAuthor: {author}\\n" @@ -1401,7 +1404,7 @@ sub vcs_blame { my $printed_novcs = 0; sub vcs_exists { foreach my $vc (@VCS_avail) { - return $vc if eval $vc->{available}; + return $vc if $vc->{available}(); } if (!$printed_novcs) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/