Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kspp tree with the file-locks tree

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi all,

With the merge window opening, just a reminder that this conflict still
exists.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:32:11 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the kspp tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   include/linux/fs.h
> 
> between commits:
> 
>   7356fd927059 ("fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting")
>   c7fe314be636 ("fs: add f_md_wb_err field to struct file for tracking metadata errors")
> 
> from the file-locks tree and commit:
> 
>   1a12979f61e4 ("randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization")
> 
> from the kspp tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below) 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
> 
> diff --cc include/linux/fs.h
> index 39e4603cd17a,8f28143486c4..000000000000
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@@ -397,8 -392,7 +397,8 @@@ struct address_space 
>   	gfp_t			gfp_mask;	/* implicit gfp mask for allocations */
>   	struct list_head	private_list;	/* ditto */
>   	void			*private_data;	/* ditto */
>  +	errseq_t		wb_err;
> - } __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long))));
> + } __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long)))) __randomize_layout;
>   	/*
>   	 * On most architectures that alignment is already the case; but
>   	 * must be enforced here for CRIS, to let the least significant bit
> @@@ -875,8 -868,8 +875,9 @@@ struct file 
>   	struct list_head	f_tfile_llink;
>   #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
>   	struct address_space	*f_mapping;
>  +	errseq_t		f_md_wb_err; /* metadata wb error tracking */
> - } __attribute__((aligned(4)));	/* lest something weird decides that 2 is OK */
> + } __randomize_layout
> +   __attribute__((aligned(4)));	/* lest something weird decides that 2 is OK */
>   
>   struct file_handle {
>   	__u32 handle_bytes;

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell