From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4EEEDDB6; Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1711964260; cv=none; b=oq2kRbxF0i84FrLFMmTU2HDFf2Oc0FPruaRtsIEt4YqEEtWWdEt899nw4HwTWfqDhWAXIEe6Ux1eNEYJ8BzOD/zNmHk/zNo4qo004r6lz5ehR7YOX9mKhEHm33kGaAwAt1mNT22o9SpnEruR43b2vVqTILgWjos63sT8roKNBfs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1711964260; c=relaxed/simple; bh=oDisQHZ5QyWOBRBhJ8kMuP+uptWUSRjIpRSluHtVhVc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=c3UdP/rcxqPZeD0te7KSciz0V/MH39XJ6z6CWnbw/37zvCAbrrJckGYTetCBbpkpeqkkob+9Qjp6jGqYzEKhAdMyHXcTE1+tUNKFrGjyXDyZwrG3dLuDU5M/8miuUYHvkcvG4IU4IxYznK5BJ3gj+xAQWGw+nsTbXAHh8L4wGOA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Tt/EZVv/; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Tt/EZVv/" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8BB43C433C7; Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:37:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1711964260; bh=oDisQHZ5QyWOBRBhJ8kMuP+uptWUSRjIpRSluHtVhVc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Tt/EZVv/ZR4QHN+8t5vtOuvEZrap4N7Kp7jzy5BgK0XNRRXOjGiX6dc0f9EBgKWys kJiG9vkUu2CBvy3w1voiAz8nZDbgVZ6J/pWy2Zh9bZiS+TDbC+66fW6wetGS7Qmn7/ AF1ChqhTPW7+uehANNKEHibK+mojRJtl/93diCQA= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 11:37:36 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Ajay Kaher Cc: Kuntal Nayak , stable@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com, vasavi.sirnapalli@broadcom.com, Yangxi Xiang , stable , Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.19-v5.4] vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer Message-ID: <2024040149-countable-ecosystem-ee44@gregkh> References: <20240329191208.88821-1-kuntal.nayak@broadcom.com> <2024033014-deception-cartoon-7470@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 02:51:55PM +0530, Ajay Kaher wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 2:37 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 12:12:08PM -0700, Kuntal Nayak wrote: > > > From: Yangxi Xiang > > > > > > [ upstream commit 39cdb68c64d8 ] > > > > Please use the full git id in the future, it makes it easier and our > > tools want it that way so that we can tell the difference between a > > "Fixes:" tag and an actual backport. I'll go queue this up now, thanks! > > > > Thanks Greg for accepting the patch. > > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl confuse developers, as it gives error/warning > if we use full git id. No need to run checkpatch on backports, as the changelog text should not be an issue. > Example: > ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of > sha1> ("")' - ie: 'commit e26d3009efda ("netfilter: > nf_tables: disallow timeout for anonymous sets")' > #6: > commit e26d3009efda338f19016df4175f354a9bd0a4ab upstream. > > Or shall we have something ./scripts/checkpatchstable.pl or > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl stable (pass argument)? Nah, it's never come up before now, I don't think people actually run it, and I know I've never done so or even noticed, so all is fine. thanks, greg k-h