linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the selinux tree with the net-next tree

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Message-Id: <20180307.114139.680250568317481879.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:41:39 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     paul@...l-moore.com
Cc:     lucien.xin@...il.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        richard_c_haines@...nternet.com
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the selinux tree with the net-next
 tree

From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:34:31 -0500

> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> Today's linux-next merge of the selinux tree got a conflict in:
>>>
>>>   net/sctp/socket.c
>>>
>>> between several refactoring commits from the net-next tree and commit:
>>>
>>>   2277c7cd75e3 ("sctp: Add LSM hooks")
>>>
>>> from the selinux tree.
>>>
>>> I fixed it up (I think - see below) and can carry the fix as
>> The fixup is great!  the same as I mentioned in:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/879898/
>> for net-next.git
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> [net-next,0/9] sctp: clean up sctp_sendmsg, this patchset was just applied
>> in net-next. So I just guess it might not yet be there when selinux tree was
>> being submitted.
> 
> The selinux/next branch is based on v4.16-rc1 and doesn't feed into
> the netdev tree, it goes straight to Linus during the merge window so
> unfortunately I think we may need to carry this for some time and
> relay this fix-up patch up to Linus during the merge window.

What a mess.

The SCTP option changes should have gone through my tree in retrospect.