From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <ja...@zx2c4.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:08:05 +0200
> This is a defense-in-depth measure in response to bugs like > 4d6fa57b4dab0d77f4d8e9d9c73d1e63f6fe8fee. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> Please refer to commits in the form: $(SHA1_ID) ("Commit header line.") That is, 12 bytes of SHA1_ID followed by the commit header line text in both double quotes and parenthesis, like this: 4d6fa57b4dab ("macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec") Otherwise when changes get backported or applied to different trees, they have different SHA1_ID values. The commit header text removes any and all ambiguity. Thank you.