Re: [tip:efi/core] x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Feb 23 2016 - 13:08:12 EST


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2016 1:09 AM, <&quot;tip-bot for Sai Praneeth
> &lt;tipbot@xxxxxxxxx&gt;&quot;@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Something's wrong with tip-bot. This should say:

Yeah, there's about 50 tipbot emails that are just pure garbage. They
don't even show in my mailers, because they are so corrupt.

The raw email has some insane encoding too, for reasons I can't begin to fathom.

This is an example of what tipbot *used* to send out in the headers:

From: tip-bot for Dave Hansen <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tip:mm/pkeys] mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys:
Add execute-only protection keys support

and this is what it sent out in the last crazy setup:

From: =?UTF-8?B?dGlwLWJvdCBmb3IgU2FpIFByYW5lZXRoIDx0aXBib3RAenl0b3IuY29tPg==?=@xxxxxxxxx
Subject:
=?UTF-8?B?W3RpcDplZmkvY29yZV0geDg2L21tL3BhdDogVXNlIF9QQUdFX0dMT0JBTCBiaXQ=?=
=?UTF-8?B?IGZvciBFRkkgcGFnZSB0YWJsZSBtYXBwaW5ncw==?=

despite neither subject nor author having any odd characters in them.

(That's just two header lines - all the other ones are corrupt in
similar ways too)

The thing that seems to really make things unreadable is that the
content encoding lines have this corrupted quoting too:

MIME-Version: =?UTF-8?B?MS4w?=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: =?UTF-8?B?OGJpdA==?=
Content-Type: =?UTF-8?B?dGV4dC9wbGFpbjsgY2hhcnNldD1VVEYtOA==?=
Content-Disposition: =?UTF-8?B?aW5saW5l?=

rather than what it *should* be:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Disposition: inline

so the whole header situation is a complete mess.

The fact that you can see the patch at all and comment on the
*contents* of the email is impressive. My mail reader just says "this
is garbage" and shows me nothing at all.

Linus