Re: Missing signoff in the ipsec tree

From: Mark Brown

Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 06:30:11 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 07:02:30AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 02:51:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 2982e599fff6f ("esp: fix page frag reference leak on skb_to_sgvec failure")

> The commit message looks like this:

> Author: e521588 <alessandro.schino@xxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Schino <7991aleschino@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> So 'Author:' and 'Signed-off-by:' have different mail addresses,
> but the person should be the same. I did not notice that when
> I applied the patch. I hope it is not a problem.

It's probably fine if you're sure enough they're the same person, at the
end of the day it's up to Linus and whoever your upstream maintainers
are rather than me.

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