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Message-ID: <458206e7ef7816ae21f00916604a2f4f066ac8df.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 03:17:19 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: Warn if missing author Signed-off-by

On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 12:03 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Print a warning if none of the Signed-off-by lines cover the patch
> author.
> 
> Non-ASCII quoted printable encoding in From: headers and (lack of)
> double quotes are handled.
> Split From: headers are not fully handled: only the first part is
> compared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Thanks Geert.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

> ---
> Tested using a set of ca. 4000 real world commits.
> 
> Most common offenders are people using:
>   - different email addresses for author and Sob,
>   - different firstname/lastname order, or other different name
>     spelling,
>   - suse.de vs. suse.com.
> 
> v3:
>   - Also print actual missing author,
>   - Match against "\s*" instead of single space,
> 
> v2:
>   - Use "Encode" instead of "MIME::Words", as the former is a Perl core
>     module,
>   - Reduce level from error to warning,
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 8d0bad190c25e2e0..d2fd6efe499525c3 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use POSIX;
>  use File::Basename;
>  use Cwd 'abs_path';
>  use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
> +use Encode qw(decode encode);
>  
>  my $P = $0;
>  my $D = dirname(abs_path($P));
> @@ -2236,6 +2237,8 @@ sub process {
>  
>  	our $clean = 1;
>  	my $signoff = 0;
> +	my $author = '';
> +	my $authorsignoff = 0;
>  	my $is_patch = 0;
>  	my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1;
>  	my $in_commit_log = 0;		#Scanning lines before patch
> @@ -2518,10 +2521,23 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +# Check the patch for a From:
> +		if (decode("MIME-Header", $line) =~ /^From:\s*(.*)/) {
> +			$author = encode("utf8", $1);
> +			$author =~ s/"//g;
> +		}
> +
>  # Check the patch for a signoff:
>  		if ($line =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:/i) {
>  			$signoff++;
>  			$in_commit_log = 0;
> +			if ($author ne '') {
> +				my $l = $line;
> +				$l =~ s/"//g;
> +				if ($l =~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\s*\Q$author\E/i) {
> +				    $authorsignoff = 1;
> +				}
> +			}
>  		}
>  
>  # Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated.  If so, there's probably no need to
> @@ -6487,9 +6503,14 @@ sub process {
>  		ERROR("NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF",
>  		      "Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n");
>  	}
> -	if ($is_patch && $has_commit_log && $chk_signoff && $signoff == 0) {
> -		ERROR("MISSING_SIGN_OFF",
> -		      "Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)\n");
> +	if ($is_patch && $has_commit_log && $chk_signoff) {
> +		if ($signoff == 0) {
> +			ERROR("MISSING_SIGN_OFF",
> +			      "Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)\n");
> +		} elsif (!$authorsignoff) {
> +			WARN("NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF",
> +			     "Missing Signed-off-by: line by nominal patch author '$author'\n");
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	print report_dump();

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