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Date:   Sun, 12 Aug 2018 08:39:08 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Sumit Kumar <sumit686215@gmail.com>
Cc:     Rob Springer <rspringer@google.com>,
        John Joseph <jnjoseph@google.com>,
        Ben Chan <benchan@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove null ptr check before kfree
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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@vger.kernel.org
> 
> $ 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@vger.kernel.org (open list)

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