linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the cifs tree

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Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2020 10:31:33 -0500
From:   Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the cifs tree

Dan,
I just fixed the Author tag in this patch to match your email address
but seems like the author email address gets mangled when sent through
some mailing lists.  Any ideas how to avoid this.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 1:45 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Commit
>
>   2676d210d2f4 ("cifs: Fix an error pointer dereference in cifs_mount()")
>
> is missing a Signed-off-by from its author.
>
> This is only pisked up by my script because of the mangling of the email
> sender address by the mailing list it passed through.  I guess a little
> more care is required to make sure the author attribution is correct in
> this case.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell



-- 
Thanks,

Steve