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Allow a leading space and otherwise blank link in the email headers
as it can be a line wrapped Spamassassin multiple line string or any
other valid rfc 2822/5322 email header.

The line with space causes checkpatch to erroniously think that it's
in the content body, as opposed to headers and thus flag a mail header
as an unwrapped long comment line.

Reported-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Original-patch-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley (VMware) <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 832e8150dba3..089c974aa3a5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2628,8 +2628,8 @@ sub process {
# Check if it's the start of a commit log
# (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename)
if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
- !($rawline =~ /^\s+\S/ ||
- $rawline =~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).*$/i)) {
+ !($rawline =~ /^\s+(?:\S|$)/ ||
+ $rawline =~ /^(?:commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:)/i)) {
$in_header_lines = 0;
$in_commit_log = 1;
$has_commit_log = 1;
--
2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c