From 046fc741e35e9dee7c7f7c4173ba3d79f938286f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mimi Zohar Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:59:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file 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) {