Re: [PATCH] Fix use-after-free oops in Bluetooth HID.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jul 07 2007 - 15:28:20 EST




On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> When cleaning up HIDP sessions [...]

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Btw, and totally unrelated to the patch itself..

I changed that second "Signed-off-by:" into an "Acked-by:", since that
more accurately reflects what happened.

Not that it really matters, but it's nice to see what chain the patch
actually took (from you to me - sign-off path), and independently of that
see who looked at it and approved it (acked-by), and then often we
additionally end up having a set of people who might have tested it
("Tested-by:") or maybe should just have been aware of it (the "Cc:")
ones.

So the "Signed-off-by:" thing is one of many possible thigns that you can
do, but it's somewhat special in that it has some "legal" meaning in that
it is supposed to show the people who either wrote it or who forwarded it
(possibly with changes, but quite often just unchanged).

Linus
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