Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in Linus' tree

From: Changbin Du <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 01:58:43 +0000

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 07:33:45AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> [Just a note for some future improvement]
> 
> In commit
> 
>   2c4f1fcbef0b ("kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault")
> 
> Fixes tag
> 
>   Fixes: 9da3f2b7405 ("x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses")
> 
> has these problem(s):
> 
>   - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long
>     Can be fixed by setting core.abbrev to 12 (or more) or (for git v2.11
>     or later) just making sure it is not set (or set to "auto").
> 
> --
Thanks for reminding. The scripts/checkpatch.pl does has such check but
it only checks the commit message body. I will try to extend it to
include tags, and hint how to configure git.

> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell

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Cheers,
Changbin Du