Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the rdma-fixes tree

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:39:38 -0800

On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 09:18 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 04:40:58PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Commit
> > 
> >   aa0de36a40f4 ("RDMA/mlx5: Fix integer overflow while resizing CQ")
> > 
> > is missing a Signed-off-by from its author.
> 
> Thanks Stephen,
> 
> May I suggest to the checkpatch maintainers that checkpack should look
> for this too?

No such commit in current -hext
$ git status HEAD
HEAD detached at next-20180308

checkpatch doesn't try to match email sender to sign-off
as the email sender doesn't have to sign-off on a patch.

It currently does:

	if ($is_patch && $has_commit_log && $chk_signoff && $signoff == 0) {
		ERROR("MISSING_SIGN_OFF",
		      "Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)\n");
	}