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

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Date:   Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:19:19 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     "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>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

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.

Okay, understood. I'll leave them in my tree until I see them duplicated
in their respective trees (or in Linus's tree).

> I will use these in the merge of the kspp tree from tomorrow until they
> appear earlier (or you could put them back in your tree).  Cross tree
> dependencies are a pain :-(   BTW Linus would have the same problem I
> am having if he merges your tree during the merge window before he
> merges the net-next tree ...

Yeah, I'm used to going "late" in the -rc1 from these kinds of things. :)

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook