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Re: b43/leds: Ensure NUL-termination of LED name string

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On 9 August 2018 at 18:15, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 9 August 2018 at 17:28, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Michael Büsch <m@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> strncpy might not NUL-terminate the string, if the name equals the buffer size.
>>>> Use strlcpy instead.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> This is weird, with all the patches you submitted last week I get this
>>> if I download the patch from patchwork:
>>>
>>> $ git am -s 1.mbox
>>> Patch is empty. Was it split wrong?
>>>
>>> But if I download the patch directly from my IMAP folder I have no
>>> problems:
>>>
>>> $ git am -s 1.mbox
>>> Applying: b43/leds: Ensure NUL-termination of LED name string
>>>
>>> This happens even without my custom patchwork script so this has
>>> something to do with the patchwork server, but it's not obvious to me
>>> what triggers it. IIRC I have not seen anything like this before. It
>>> seems that you didn't use git-send-email, I strongly suggest to use that
>>> just to avoid problems like this.
>>
>> Looks like patchwork mishandles the pgp signature, the patchwork mbox has
>>
>>> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512;
>>>  boundary="Sig_/EN90ciRq4eWXDUcnZABQ0Ak"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
>>
>> as the only content-type (and the boundary is nowhere to be found),
>> while the one in my inbox has
>>
>>> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512;
>>> boundary="Sig_/EN90ciRq4eWXDUcnZABQ0Ak";
>>> protocol="application/pgp-signature"
>>>
>>> --Sig_/EN90ciRq4eWXDUcnZABQ0Ak
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>> When I remove the Content-Type: line(s) from the mbox from patchwork,
>> git recognises it again as a patch. I guess git am ignores everything
>> until the boundary, which got dropped by patchwork, so it never finds
>> the actual patch.
>
> Awesome, thanks for debugging this! It would be great if someone could
> report this to the patchwork maintainers, I don't have the time right
> now.

Silly question, but who *are* the maintainers? I just spend several
minutes on https://patchwork.kernel.org/ and google, and failed to
find any contact information.


Regards
Jonas




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