Allow a leading space and otherwise blank link in the email headers as it can be a line wrapped Spamassassin multiple line string or any other valid rfc 2822/5322 email header.
The line with space causes checkpatch to erroniously think that it's in the content body, as opposed to headers and thus flag a mail header as an unwrapped long comment line. Reported-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvh...@infradead.org> Original-patch-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley (VMware) <warth...@eaglescrag.net> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 832e8150dba3..089c974aa3a5 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2628,8 +2628,8 @@ sub process { # Check if it's the start of a commit log # (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename) if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ && - !($rawline =~ /^\s+\S/ || - $rawline =~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).*$/i)) { + !($rawline =~ /^\s+(?:\S|$)/ || + $rawline =~ /^(?:commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:)/i)) { $in_header_lines = 0; $in_commit_log = 1; $has_commit_log = 1; -- 2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c