linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EDAC, thunderx: fix possible out-of-bounds string access.

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Message-ID: <ece872de-46fa-4138-959d-28e76e6b5edb@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:41:33 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Sergey Temerkhanov <s.temerkhanov@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Yeqi Fu <asuk4.q@...il.com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, thunderx: fix possible out-of-bounds string access.



On 11/23/23 08:30, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:03:58AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> That's correct, yes.
> 
> Commit ID is stable enough so that it doesn't change?

Well, it has changed a couple of times in a week.

> 
> I don't want to commit it now and it would happen to change later and
> I'll have a stale reference in the commit message...
> 

To avoid that, I would just say (in the changelog text) that this patch
is fixing some -Wstringop-overflow warnings, without specifying any
commit ID.

--
Gustavo