netdev - Re: [PATCH V2] brcmfmac: fix possible buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jul 2017 13:11:42 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] brcmfmac: fix possible buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx()

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com> wrote:
> Now I signed off on the patch although formally I suppose Linus should
> sign it off.

You can certainly consider it

   Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

but I really don't need the authorship (or resulting sign-off
requirement) because multiple people ended up sending in very similar
patches.

All the real work was in actually finding the issue.

                  Linus