checkpatch: improve parse_email signature checking
Bare email addresses with non alphanumeric characters require escape
quoting before being substituted in the parse_email routine.
e.g. Reported-by: syzbot+bbd8e9a06452cc48059b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Do so.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518631805.3678.12.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 764ffd1..b464a4c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@
} elsif ($formatted_email =~ /(\S+\@\S+)(.*)$/) {
$address = $1;
$comment = $2 if defined $2;
- $formatted_email =~ s/$address.*$//;
+ $formatted_email =~ s/\Q$address\E.*$//;
$name = $formatted_email;
$name = trim($name);
$name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
