linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

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Message-ID: <20220131191019.fpa5sn5u4kuov5ub@sx1>
Date:   Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:10:19 -0800
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

On 30 Jan 22:19, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:59:32PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:04:00 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > This should be fixed by:
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220124172242.2410996-1-keescook@chromium.org/
>> > (I was expecting this to be in netdev by now.)
>> >
>> > This should be fixed in:
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220124172028.2410761-1-keescook@chromium.org/
>> > (Again, this was expected to be in netdev by now.)
>> >
>>
>> yeah, neither has made it yet.  However, it would not have helped as I
>> am merging the kspp tree very early so that new bugs get fixed in the
>> trees that introduce them.  These 2 are in Linus tree (for a long time)
>> and so it would be better if these fixes went int the net tree and then
>> Linus' tree as bug fixes.
>

I need proper fixes tags to submit to net, can you provide ? 

another option is to use a shared branch with those fixes and pull it to
both net-next and kspp.

let me know what option do you prefer.

-Saeed.