linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the pidfd tree

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2019 08:53:04 -0400
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the pidfd
 tree

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:01:14PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Wed, 15 May 2019 13:16:29 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
> > 
> >   include/linux/pid.h
> > 
> > between commit:
> > 
> >   51f1b521a515 ("pidfd: add polling support")
> > 
> > from the pidfd tree and commit:
> > 
> >   c02e28a1bb18 ("kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid:count to refcount_t")
> > 
> > from the akpm-current tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
> > is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
> > conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
> > is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider cooperating
> > with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
> > complex conflicts.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen Rothwell
> > 
> > diff --cc include/linux/pid.h
> > index 1484db6ca8d1,0be5829ddd80..000000000000
> > --- a/include/linux/pid.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/pid.h
> > @@@ -3,7 -3,7 +3,8 @@@
> >   #define _LINUX_PID_H
> >   
> >   #include <linux/rculist.h>
> >  +#include <linux/wait.h>
> > + #include <linux/refcount.h>
> >   
> >   enum pid_type
> >   {
> 
> I am still getting this conflict (the commits have changed).  Just a
> reminder in case you think Linus may need to know.

Could you let me know if this trivial header inclusion conflict has been
resolved now? Let me know what else I can do to help.