Re: [PATCH libcrypto 2/2] crypto: chacha20poly1305: statically check fixed array lengths

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 08:47, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hmm. Is this a compiler bug?
>
> It's not. It's a 0day test bot bug! My original patch had in it some
> commentary about what a bug would look like when it's caught by the
> compiler. In order to provoke that compiler output, I mentioned in the
> commit message that this diff will produce such and such result:

Lol, ok.

I sometimes actively just whitespace-damage my "what about this"
patches to make sure people don't just blindly apply them without
thinking about them and actually look at them.

Maybe that's a good policy in general, so that the bots don't do the same ;)

            Linus