linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: bail out from rtnl_fdb

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 17:24:00 +0200
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: bail out from rtnl_fdb_dump() on parse error

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:10 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:56:47 +0200
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I've noticed that the upstream patch:
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0ff50e83b5122e836ca492fefb11656b225ac29c
>> contains the KMSAN report and the repro, despite I've put them under
>> the triple dash (IIRC Eric told me I shouldn't bloat the patch
>> descriptions with that information). Did I mess it up somehow?
>
> I put them into the main commit log message by hand when I applied the
> patch, I think the more information in commit log messages the better.

Ok, thanks for clarifying!

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Alexander Potapenko
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