Re: linux-next: manual merge of the mm-nonmm-unstable tree with the tip-fixes tree

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 13:33:20 EST


On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 15:04:29 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the mm-nonmm-unstable tree got a conflict in:
>
> lib/bootconfig.c
>
> between commit:
>
> dec4d8118c179 ("bootconfig: fix NULL-pointer arithmetic in xbc_snprint_cmdline()")
>
> from the tip-fixes tree and commit:
>
> 9f2274451ae6b ("lib/bootconfig: fix undefined behavior involving NULL pointer arithmetic")
>
> from the mm-nonmm-unstable tree which look like two fixes for the same
> issue.

hm, OK, thanks. I don't know which is preferable, really. I'll drop
the mm.git patch because the tip-fixes patch has a nice comment ;)