linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] hardening fixes for v6.16-rc1

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Message-ID: <20250531213641.GE3574388@ZenIV>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 22:36:41 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Saitz <ingo@...nover.ccc.de>,
	kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] hardening fixes for v6.16-rc1

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 11:20:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2025 at 08:00, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull this small handful of hardening fixes for v6.16-rc1.
> 
> WTF, Kees?
> 
> You seem to have actively maliciously modified your tree completely.
> 
> There are completely crazy commits in there that are entirely fake.
> 
> You have this: f8b59a0f90a2 Merge tag 'driver-core-6.16-rc1' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core
> 
> which *claims* to be from me, and committed by me, but is very much
> not. It's some garbage you have entirely made up.
> 
> Yes, there is a real commit like that, but it's has the SHA1 ID of
> 9d230d500b0e.

Interesting - looks like a large part of commit graph had been mirrored
with mergetag parts filed off; actual tree objects appear to match...