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Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine
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If you're not familiar with reading mailing lists or don't follow what is happening, Brodie Robertson on YT did a good video on this: https://youtu.be/GhfhzTDQdUU
TL;DR: Some tooling script caused the problem, but it initially seemed like a malicious pull request from kernel developer. It wasn't and the issue was resolved. The tooling script will be updated with better error messages so this kind of problem should be obvious when it occurs.
Brodie has a good read on the pulse of Linux, worth following if you want to keep up with linux news.