Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove null ptr check before kfree

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 03:11:22AM +0530, Sumit Kumar wrote:
> Adding a mailing list in cc as per recommendation from greg's patch bot.
> + linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
> /tmp/0001-staging-gasket-remove-null-ptr-check-before-kfree.patch
> fatal: /tmp/0001-staging-gasket-remove-null-ptr-check-before-kfree.patch:
> '/tmp/0001-staging-gasket-remove-null-ptr-check-before-kfree.patch' is
> outside repository
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

Do not use -f to point to a patch.  Try it again and see what happens...