Re: [GIT PULL] smb client fixes for 7.3-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 at 15:06, Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Attached is a pull request for the patches if you
> are willing to take them immediately.

I think I might as well take them immediately and treat it as a merge
window update pull, even if it looks like only one of these commits
have been in linux-next. Not the comon situation, after all.

I assume there is nothing else pending right now?

Also, I've mentioned this elsewhere, but since I'm starting to see
more pulls from you I'll mention it explicitly here too: the merge
message should describe what the changes do, not irrelevant
technicalities.

And one such irrelevant technicality is how many patches there are.
Nobody cares.

Would it have been any different if it had been done as one single
larger patch? No.

And if people do care about the "five patches" part, they would be
looking at the individual commits, not reading the merge commit
message.

So I mention this because I reacted to "five sensitive data leak fixes".

The "five" is uninteresting, and the "data leak fixes" aren't.

Those commits are clearing keys after use. That's not fixing a leak,
that's just hardening in case a leak exists elsewere.

So I rewrote it as "clear sensitive data after use".

This is not a problem, but I'll be happier if I don't feel like I need
to edit things more than necessary, so I'm mentioning this in the hope
that people will stop that pattern of numbering patches in particular.

                 Linus