Re: [GIT PULL] security subsytem: TPM changes for v5.2

From: James Morris
Date: Thu May 09 2019 - 18:21:12 EST


On Thu, 9 May 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 10:23 AM James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Bugfixes and new selftests for v5.1 features (partial reads in /dev/tpm0).
>
> What the heck is going on?
>
> I got all of these long ago in the "TPM fixes" branch for 5.1. One
> month ago, merge commit a556810d8e06.
>
> These are just rebased (!) copies of stuff I already have, and they should
>
> (a) never have been rebased in the first place
>
> (b) certainly not be re-sent to me as a new branch
>
> Please throw this branch away and make sure it really is dead and
> buried and never shows up again.

Yikes, ok.

> And take a moment to look at what happened and why this broken branch
> was duplicated and sent twice!

Could it be something I pulled in? I haven't used 'rebase' in many years.


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James Morris
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