Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] pixman: backport fix for CVE-2022-44638

[Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>]

Hi Ravula

Thank you very much for the patch!

On 11/8/22 09:51, Ezhilarasan wrote:
> Reference to upstream patch:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pixman/pixman/-/commit/a1f88e842e0216a5b4df1ab023caebe33c101395
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravula AdhityaX Siddartha <adhityax.siddartha.ravula@intel.com>

However, if I apply your patch through "git am", the author of the 
commit will be:
Ezhilarasan <ezhilarasanx.s@intel.com>
instead of
Ravula AdhityaX Siddartha <adhityax.siddartha.ravula@intel.com>

Because of this issue, the maintainer has to manually fix this field 
when accepting your patch. Worse, if he doesn't catch this, that's 
harder to fix afterwards.

You should be able to fix this by running:
git config --global sendemail.from "ezhilarasanx.s@intel.com"

This should add a "From" field to the sent patch which "git am" should 
be able to match with your name.
At least this worked for me. See 
https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded#Sending_using_git-send-email

Could you try to send an update (don't hesitate to send a private one to 
me first)?

Thanks in advance
Michael.

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Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com