Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the tip tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jan 17 2019 - 19:32:38 EST


Hi Thomas,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:45:44 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Commit
> >
> > a31e184e4f69 ("x86/pkeys: Properly copy pkey state at fork()")
> >
> > Fixes tag
> >
> > Fixes: e8c24d3a23a ("x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls")
> >
> > has these problems:
> >
> > - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long
>
> Sigh. I'll add that to my sanity checks, but this one has to be as is as
> it's in the middle of a series of fixes pending for linus tree.

That's OK, more of a reminder ... the abbreviated SHA1 is unique now,
but may not be in the future - of course 12 digits does not guarantee
that either. I am told we already have some clashes using 11 digits :-(

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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