"Link:" and "Closes:" tags have to be used with public URLs.
It is difficult to make sure the link is public but at least we can verify the tag is followed by 'http(s)://'. With that, we avoid such a tag that is not allowed [1]: Closes: <number> Now that we check the "link" tags are followed by a URL, we can relax the check linked to "Reported-by being followed by a link tag" to only verify if a "link" tag is present after the "Reported-by" one. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHk-=wh0v1EeDV3v8TzK81nDC40=xutdy2mcr0xy3m3fibv...@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <[email protected]> --- v4: - Relax "Reported-by being followed by a link tag" check - Check for "http(s)://" not just "http(s):" v3: - new patch addressing Linus' concerns. --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f8a57f400570..6d602c61d72a 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3179,7 +3179,7 @@ sub process { if (!defined $lines[$linenr]) { WARN("BAD_REPORTED_BY_LINK", "Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report\n" . $herecurr . "\n"); - } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ m{^closes:\s*https?://}i) { + } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ /^closes:\s*/i) { WARN("BAD_REPORTED_BY_LINK", "Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report\n" . $herecurr . $rawlines[$linenr] . "\n"); } @@ -3292,6 +3292,17 @@ sub process { } } +# Check for misuse of the link tags + if ($in_commit_log && + $line =~ /^\s*(\w+:)\s*(\S+)/) { + my $tag = $1; + my $value = $2; + if ($tag =~ /^$link_tags_search$/ && $value !~ m{^https?://}) { + WARN("COMMIT_LOG_WRONG_LINK", + "'$tag' should be followed by a public http(s) link\n" . $herecurr); + } + } + # Check for lines starting with a # if ($in_commit_log && $line =~ /^#/) { if (WARN("COMMIT_COMMENT_SYMBOL", -- 2.39.2
