Re: [PATCH] net: prestera: acl: Add check for kmemdup

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:03:17 +0800 Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> Actually, I used get_maintainer scripts and the results is as follow:
> "./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_acl.c"
> Taras Chornyi <tchornyi@xxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:MARVELL PRESTERA ETHERNET SWITCH DRIVER)
> "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> 
> Therefore, I submitted my patch to the above addresses.
> 
> And this time I checked the fixes commit, and found that it has two
> authors:
> Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Mytnyk <vmytnyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Maybe there is a problem of the script that misses one.
> Anyway, I have already submitted the same patch and added
> "vmytnyk@xxxxxxxxxxx" this time.

Ha! So you do indeed use it in a way I wasn't expecting :S
Thanks for the explanation.

Joe, would you be okay to add a "big fat warning" to get_maintainer
when people try to use the -f flag? Maybe we can also change the message
that's displayed when the script is run without arguments to not
mention -f?

We're getting quite a few fixes which don't CC author, I'm guessing
Jiasheng's approach may be a common one.