Re: linux-next: manual merge of the bpf-next tree with the net-next tree

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Sun Nov 24 2019 - 20:19:57 EST


On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 3:58 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Today's linux-next merge of the bpf-next tree got a conflict in:
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> kernel/bpf/syscall.c
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> between commit:
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> 84bb46cd6228 ("Revert "bpf: Emit audit messages upon successful prog load and unload"")
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> from the net-next tree and commit:
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> 8793e6b23b1e ("bpf: Move bpf_free_used_maps into sleepable section")
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> from the bpf-next tree.

argh. I wonder whether individual reverts would have
helped git to avoid such conflict.
Anyhow I've rebased bpf-next on top of net-next to avoid this mess.
There was only one Fixes tag that I adjusted manually.