Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix Intel TDX kernel file patterns

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2026-10-29 at 19:33 -0700, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> ```
> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[bp@xxxxxxxxx](mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx)>
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:25:27 -0700
> 
> A K: is a content regex file pattern which matches any text in a patch
> so if a commit message contains "TDx" as in
> 
>   the TDxE (Transmit Data Empty) flag
> 
> for example, see
> 
>   [https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261026-g2ul_sci-v3-3-b3097163edd5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx](https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261026-g2ul_sci-v3-3-b3097163edd5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> 
> get_maintainer.pl erroneously adds the x86 gang to the Cc list for what
> obviously is a completely unrelated patch.
> 
> The same happens when someone uses it to check
> 
>   drivers/power/reset/tdx-ec-poweroff.c
> 
> patches.
> 
> So switch the x86 TDX patterns to files and directories (N:) type
> patterns and group them by path, for less false positives.

It's probably better to use F: and not N:

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7a162e9bcab1..6aaeb7df83c8 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -30347,8 +30347,11 @@ L:	[linux-coco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx](mailto:linux-coco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>  L:	[kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx](mailto:kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>  S:	Supported
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/tdx
> -N:	tdx
> -K:	\b(tdx)
> +N:	arch/x86/.*tdx

F:	arch/x86/**/*tdx*

> +N:	Documentation/.*tdx

F:	Documentation/**/*tdx*

> +N:	drivers/virt/coco/.*tdx

F:	drivers/virt/coco/tdx*/

> +N:	include/uapi/linux/.*tdx

F:	include/uapi/linux/tdx-guest.h

> +N:	tools/testing/selftests/tdx

F:	tools/testing/selftests/tdx/