On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 07:47:36AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Naveen,
> 
> On 2026-09-01T10:23:25, Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <[email protected]> wrote:
> > bootstage: fix unchecked malloc and undersized buffer in 
> > bootstage_mark_code()
> >
> > bootstage_mark_code() allocated the label buffer without checking the
> > result and then dereferenced it, risking a NULL pointer crash on
> > allocation failure. The length calculation also failed to account for
> > the "," and ": " separators emitted by the snprintf() calls, so the
> > assembled string could be silently truncated. Additionally, when file
> > and func are NULL and linenum is -1, the buffer was passed on
> > uninitialized.
> 
> Please rewrite in present tense per U-Boot / Linux convention, e.g.
> 'allocates the label buffer without checking the result', 'fails to
> account for', 'is passed on uninitialised'. This patch aims to change
> the current code.

Hi Simon,

As I said the other day, please stop telling people to rewrite their
commit messages when it's already clear and understandable. This simply
leads to confusion and frustration among our contributors.

-- 
Tom

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