Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi all, > > Commit > > 77bbbc0cf848 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix TLB management on SMT8 POWER9 and POWER10 processors") > > is missing a Signed-off-by from its author. That was actually deliberate. Suraj wrote the patch when he was at IBM, but never sent it. Paul & Nick then resurrected it from some internal tree, and are now submitting it on behalf of IBM. So they are asserting option b) of the DCO AIUI: (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file cheers