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Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the pm tree
From:   Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220104081534.5bd47f87@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jan 2022 21:21:50 +0000
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
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To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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On 3 Jan 2022, at 21:15, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>=20
> Hi all,
>=20
> Commits
>=20
>  a3e525feaeec ("ACPICA: Avoid subobject buffer overflow when =
validating RSDP signature")
>  339651be3704 ("ACPICA: Macros: Remove ACPI_PHYSADDR_TO_PTR")
>  5d6e59665d8b ("ACPICA: Use original pointer for virtual origin =
tables")
>  ca25f92b72d2 ("ACPICA: Use original data_table_region pointer for =
accesses")
>=20
> are missing a Signed-off-by from their author.

They=E2=80=99re commits I contributed from CheriBSD (our research fork =
of
FreeBSD targeting CHERI/Arm=E2=80=99s Morello prototype as the reference =
POSIX
OS) to upstream ACPICA. Upstream ACPICA did not ask for S-o-b, and I
don=E2=80=99t see why you should need them to import them into Linux; I =
highly
doubt every vendored bit of code you=E2=80=99ve vendored downstream has =
an
associated S-o-b. The patch series (which I was Cc=E2=80=99ed on, and =
would
rather not have been; Cc=E2=80=99ing any upstream ACPICA contributor =
with Linux
kernel patches is, to most, spam and obnoxious) is just merging the
newer upstream ACPICA version by extracting the individual upstream
ACPICA commits and mangling them for applying to the kernel.

Jess