On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:56:00 +0200, Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> said: > checkpatch validates the Signed-off-by trailers against the patch's > author, but misses the opportunity to also validate the committer when > run with --git. Maintainers therefor need third-party scripts for the > final Signed-off-by check. > > git format-patch provides the author and patch content, but not the > committer. Extend the existing git log extraction to record the > committer identity. > > Extract the author sign-off comparison logic into a shared helper, and > use it to apply the same heuristics to the final Signed-off-by trailer > and committer. > > Emit COMMITTER_SIGN_OFF_MISMATCH when the final trailer does not match > the committer. > > Assisted-by: OpenCode:GPT-5.5 > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> > ---
I too would like to see this applied. The alternative is to get emails from linux-next maintainers after a bad commit is already published, which requires rebasing of maintainers' trees. Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> Thanks, Bartosz
