1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 65c6acf1bb3b..77f4f2e4cd81 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
     }
     if ($from_filename) {
         push(@files, $file);
-        if (-f $file && ($keywords || $file_emails)) {
+        if ($file ne "MAINTAINERS" && -f $file && ($keywords || $file_emails)) {
             open(my $f, '<', $file)
                 or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n";
             my $text = do { local($/) ; <$f> };