Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kspp tree with Linus' tree

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 13:44:49 EST


On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> FIXME: Add owner of second tree to To:
> Add author(s)/SOB of conflicting commits.
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the kspp tree got a conflict in:
>
> mm/page_alloc.c
> scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
>
> between commits:
>
> 38addce8b600 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
> 0766f788eb72 ("latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy")
> 58bea4144d23 ("latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variables")
>
> from Linus' tree and commits:
>
> 2a5448668a3c ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
> 09dd109d8241 ("latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy")
>
> from the kspp tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I used the version from Linus' tree) and can carry the
> fix as 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.
>
> Kees, maybe you could clean up the kspp tree.

Oh, I wonder how that got out of sync. I've updated the kspp tree.

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security