[Kernel.org Helpdesk #46182] [linuxfoundation.org #46182] Re: Linux 4.14-rc2 (bad patch file on kernel.org)

["Linus Torvalds via RT" <kernel-helpdesk@rt.linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
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> Downloading & applying 4.14-rc2 [patch] <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/rawdiff/?id=v4.14-rc2&id2=v4.13>
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> from kernel.org (home page) gives me a file that does not apply cleanly to v4.13:

Hmm. The rc patches are automatically generated from the git tree
these days, so I don't have control over them.

It does sound like you might have caught it while it was being generated:

> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> patch: **** unexpected end of file in patch

which would seem to indicate that maybe you just caught it while it
was still being generated.

But I just tried it myself, and get the same breakage. In fact, the
patch it downloads is exactly 50397184 bytes in size. That may not
sound like a round number, but it is: it is hex 0x3010000, so it's
evenly divisible by 65536.

Methinks there's some incorrect flushing of block IO going on. Konstantin?

> I also notice that the [pgp] signing is not there.  Is that normal?

So I don't sign the rc patches any more because I don't generate them
(but the final release patches and tar-balls I *do* sign).

But maybe they could be signed by some kernel.org key.

Again, that would be an automation issue..

                    Linus