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Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:23:34 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <241e6b5336d1dcee751cb35554e507e552563a16.camel@linux.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] ima: define and call ima_alloc_kexec_file_buf From: Mimi Zohar To: James Bottomley , steven chen , stefanb@linux.ibm.com, roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com, roberto.sassu@huawei.com, eric.snowberg@oracle.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, paul@paul-moore.com, code@tyhicks.com, bauermann@kolabnow.com, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: madvenka@linux.microsoft.com, nramas@linux.microsoft.com, bhe@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:23:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <58e70121aaee33679ac295847197c1e5511b2a81.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <20250218225502.747963-1-chenste@linux.microsoft.com> <20250218225502.747963-2-chenste@linux.microsoft.com> <8023fa50a84817cc911a117db9bd3757c34fddfb.camel@linux.ibm.com> <58e70121aaee33679ac295847197c1e5511b2a81.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.52.4 (3.52.4-2.fc40) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: jLH567s1uVFEACBTyWlJqrwhOXCg8KrD X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: jLH567s1uVFEACBTyWlJqrwhOXCg8KrD X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1057,Hydra:6.0.680,FMLib:17.12.68.34 definitions=2025-02-20_06,2025-02-20_02,2024-11-22_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 clxscore=1015 priorityscore=1501 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 malwarescore=0 mlxscore=0 adultscore=0 mlxlogscore=478 bulkscore=0 suspectscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.19.0-2502100000 definitions=main-2502200113 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20250220_082401_084237_2CD03C7F X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 18.75 ) X-BeenThere: kexec@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+kexec=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 10:04 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 09:53 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 14:54 -0800, steven chen wrote: > [... > > > Author: Tushar Sugandhi > >=20 > > Steven, thank you again for picking up this patch set. > >=20 > > As previously explained, there is no tag named "Author" in > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > > .=C2=A0 To give credit to the original author use "Co-developed-by". >=20 > Just on this, only use the co-developed-by if you actually *modified* > the patch.=C2=A0 If you're just transmitting the patch unmodified you can > give original author credit by including a=20 >=20 > From: original author >=20 > Followed by a blank line at the beginning of the email.=C2=A0 That makes = the > git author field contan whatever the From: line says.=C2=A0 You still nee= d a > signoff from yourself in the original patch because you transmitted it. >=20 > Some people also consider minor modifications to be insufficient to > disturb the original copyright ownership and simply document what they > did in square brackets under their signoff, like this: >=20 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit= /?id=3Db5d1e6ee761a109400e97ac6a1b91c57d0f6a43a Originally I had said: > Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi > Signed-off-by: steven chen Before the "Co-developed-by" tag was defined, it was implied simply by t= his ordering of the "Signed-off-by" tags. =20 For those patches you didn't modify, simply import Tushar's patch with h= im as the author and add your Signed-off-by tag after his. Thanks, James, for the explanation of using "From: original author "= to force the author to be Tushar. Mimi