Hi Tom,

On Tue, 1 Sept 2026 at 08:03, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Then do we need to change this?

https://docs.u-boot-project.org/en/latest/develop/sending_patches.html#commit-message-conventions

Also, we could perhaps introduce an AGENTS.md file, so at least the AI
assistants follow the guidelines?

Regards,
Simon

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