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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 764ffd1bb1c5..b464a4c3f863 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ sub parse_email {
} 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;