linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links

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Date:   Thu,  8 Dec 2022 20:32:45 +0100
From:   Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links

Issue a warning when encountering URLs behind unknown tags, as Linus
recently stated ```please stop making up random tags that make no sense.
Just use "Link:"```[1]. That statement was triggered by an use of
'BugLink', but that's not the only tag people invented:

$ git log -100000 --format=email -P --grep='^\w+:[ \t]*http' | \
  grep -Poh '^\w+:[ \t]*http' | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20
 103889 Link: http
    415 BugLink: http
    372 Patchwork: http
    270 Closes: http
    221 Bug: http
    121 References: http
    101 v1: http
     77 Bugzilla: http
     60 URL: http
     59 v2: http
     37 Datasheet: http
     35 v3: http
     19 v4: http
     12 v5: http
      9 Ref: http
      9 Fixes: http
      9 Buglink: http
      8 v6: http
      8 Reference: http
      7 V1: http

Some of these non-standard tags make it harder for external tools that
rely on use of proper tags. One of those tools is the regression
tracking bot 'regzbot', which looks out for "Link:" tags pointing to
reports of tracked regressions.

The initial idea was to use a disallow list to raise an error when
encountering known unwanted tags like BugLink:; during review it was
requested to use a list of allowed tags instead[2].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs38ZrfPvy=nOwVkVzjpM3VFU1zobP37Fwd_h9iAD5JQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/15f7df96d49082fb7799dda6e187b33c84f38831.camel@perches.com/ [2]
Signed-off-by: Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>
Co-developed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1e5e66ae5a..f2f997f487 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3239,6 +3239,13 @@ sub process {
 			$commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 0;
 		}
 
+# Check for odd tags before a URI/URL
+		if ($in_commit_log &&
+		    $line =~ /^\s*(\w+):\s*http/ && $1 !~ /^Link/) {
+			WARN("COMMIT_LOG_USE_LINK",
+			     "Unknown link reference '$1:', use 'Link:' instead.\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # Check for lines starting with a #
 		if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /^#/) {
 			if (WARN("COMMIT_COMMENT_SYMBOL",
-- 
2.35.1