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Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, thunderx: fix possible out-of-bounds string access.
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To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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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