linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID changes for v5.10

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi_BD0OVHgj09kKgiuwyrth3ora_ZgLznW_q-+z-BR=3w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:57:40 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Micah Morton <mortonm@...omium.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SafeSetID changes for v5.10

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 5:01 PM Micah Morton <mortonm@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> I just rebased to v5.9 to make sure the 1-line changes that touch
> kernel/capability.c, kernel/groups.c and kernel/sys.c still applied
> cleanly without conflicts. Should I have rebased onto one of the -rc's
> for v5.9 instead?

No. You shouldn't have rebased at all.

Making sure something applies cleanly is simply not a reason to rebase.

See

  Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst

for some common rules.

             Linus