Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [tip:efi/core] x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:09:19 -0800 |
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On February 23, 2016 10:08:06 AM PST, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> >wrote: >> On Feb 23, 2016 1:09 AM, <"tip-bot for Sai Praneeth >> <tipbot@zytor.com>"@zytor.com> wrote: >> >> Something's wrong with tip-bot. This should say: > >Yeah, there's about 50 tipbot emails that are just pure garbage. They >don't even show in my mailers, because they are so corrupt. > >The raw email has some insane encoding too, for reasons I can't begin >to fathom. > >This is an example of what tipbot *used* to send out in the headers: > > From: tip-bot for Dave Hansen <tipbot@zytor.com> > Subject: [tip:mm/pkeys] mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: > Add execute-only protection keys support > >and this is what it sent out in the last crazy setup: > >From: >=?UTF-8?B?dGlwLWJvdCBmb3IgU2FpIFByYW5lZXRoIDx0aXBib3RAenl0b3IuY29tPg==?=@zytor.com > Subject: >=?UTF-8?B?W3RpcDplZmkvY29yZV0geDg2L21tL3BhdDogVXNlIF9QQUdFX0dMT0JBTCBiaXQ=?= > =?UTF-8?B?IGZvciBFRkkgcGFnZSB0YWJsZSBtYXBwaW5ncw==?= > >despite neither subject nor author having any odd characters in them. > >(That's just two header lines - all the other ones are corrupt in >similar ways too) > >The thing that seems to really make things unreadable is that the >content encoding lines have this corrupted quoting too: > > MIME-Version: =?UTF-8?B?MS4w?= > Content-Transfer-Encoding: =?UTF-8?B?OGJpdA==?= > Content-Type: =?UTF-8?B?dGV4dC9wbGFpbjsgY2hhcnNldD1VVEYtOA==?= > Content-Disposition: =?UTF-8?B?aW5saW5l?= > >rather than what it *should* be: > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Disposition: inline > >so the whole header situation is a complete mess. > >The fact that you can see the patch at all and comment on the >*contents* of the email is impressive. My mail reader just says "this >is garbage" and shows me nothing at all. > > Linus
Someone decided to change the behavior of the Perl module I used for encoding to unconditionally encode almost everything, claiming some kind of strict RFC compliance. An upgrade caused this to happen. I have switched modules to one which should do what one actually wants. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting.
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