From nobody Fri Apr 3 04:37:58 2026 Received: from sender-of-o59.zoho.eu (sender-of-o59.zoho.eu [136.143.169.59]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E3D53815D8 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=pass smtp.client-ip=136.143.169.59 ARC-Seal: i=2; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774391540; cv=pass; b=fQLE/+7ej9QFrtqy2fjYG0I3n4g0bLkTNHjPGOzkV7CM9OV7nsAmskyldFZ2Na1f3X+m6E5I44Mzi2+J6uWsnPxxkPdcg23NJRYT5HbGcQ/Ljw1XpnR+Z7CSmNbgk4VyCB7X7LuO5ID588SEobxXw07rwRwzN7w3sekEm45R3+4= ARC-Message-Signature: i=2; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774391540; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Eh4psVT2vdXMK4epTfcQyyYYP+7gOh8cfYDwn+qYtT0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=bKKU5q75+wfTQZv0vfuOO3OaIqQ60+UJ2ZMLAdq0FKTpLK+L2I8JVUTVi41xwtjFKA+UV90EcED6h+ICfOQQZvpTEp9g7+zzZe277ryMv4OqSdkDEmekVjfsoxdtw6piICRK8JFogFw8hoGzxTLYLb+K+6k/Qk0MAq1HsNTUtts= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=2; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=objecting.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=objecting.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=objecting.org header.i=objecting@objecting.org header.b=c351KjPZ; arc=pass smtp.client-ip=136.143.169.59 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=objecting.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=objecting.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=objecting.org header.i=objecting@objecting.org header.b="c351KjPZ" ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1774391535; cv=none; d=zohomail.eu; s=zohoarc; b=HxaU+NFkpiMXb6X9XgNlEl8Xuql5nxIMT2ViiJmNd4M4AcRmcZbU7HYFOeHfAHL8nr+gOsT2Tw0snlxCJzuNHWGX4NfWkW6a8G8dDoXEohozjq3S3oLrjEJ9cmyOCrTnP12SoePpog0BNNR/8M0Q/rFUNr9TW566xU97bB6BoHE= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zohomail.eu; s=zohoarc; t=1774391535; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:From:From:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Message-ID:References:Subject:Subject:To:To:Message-Id:Reply-To; bh=XAAGVl/NOMzLqQAJgHxeVmNhTNwLvCnn1B/Y0Dga1q4=; b=cL2K1GFnJufBW0oc8S6YZGCLHsnmO89C3UPu2MnxbExfeiM7ku5aipORrDzDiiA6vJEp4jptkOAojsn9VMfgYYWogR3qAAMIojVS7HpII2v01o/oXVuDXXkTdmvj3OnBPe19y5KEuO0EITCDwH/o6GNNrDWagJzICg9Ls9eVv4A= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.zohomail.eu; dkim=pass header.i=objecting.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=objecting@objecting.org; dmarc=pass header.from= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1774391534; s=zmail; d=objecting.org; i=objecting@objecting.org; h=From:From:To:To:Cc:Cc:Subject:Subject:Date:Date:Message-Id:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Reply-To; bh=XAAGVl/NOMzLqQAJgHxeVmNhTNwLvCnn1B/Y0Dga1q4=; b=c351KjPZFrMa9FrcEqyq47q61RBmC8iXodkaIFAL2VXiW55ZjM7KN0yabgKPLnX9 jx9ai/7DEBDqNOUZECnvuQtzAwWaAKMiVVnjn/WH6lyi074306niJY5qjKOkrb1dcx5 SS/cHvW3674soMmv/5cEcU7qJ8ayEvpBayc6BBHs= Received: by mx.zoho.eu with SMTPS id 1774391532357860.530752387785; Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:32:12 +0100 (CET) From: Josh Law To: Andrew Morton Cc: Josh Law , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/base64: fix copy-pasted @padding doc in base64_decode() Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:32:10 +0000 Message-Id: <20260324223210.47676-3-objecting@objecting.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20260324223210.47676-1-objecting@objecting.org> References: <20260324223210.47676-1-objecting@objecting.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMailClient: External Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The @padding kernel-doc for base64_decode() says "whether to append '=3D' padding characters", which was copy-pasted from base64_encode(). In the decode context, it controls whether the input is expected to include padding, not whether to append it. Signed-off-by: Josh Law --- lib/base64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/base64.c b/lib/base64.c index 20dacee25f65..325c7332b049 100644 --- a/lib/base64.c +++ b/lib/base64.c @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(base64_encode); * @src: the string to decode. Doesn't need to be NUL-terminated. * @srclen: the length of @src in bytes * @dst: (output) the decoded binary data - * @padding: whether to append '=3D' padding characters + * @padding: whether the input is expected to include '=3D' padding charac= ters * @variant: which base64 variant to use * * Decodes a string using the selected Base64 variant. --=20 2.34.1