Re: [PATCH v7 7/8] vfio: Permit VFIO to work with pinned importers

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 02:19:45PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> You don't need any backmerge, SHA-1 version of vfio-v6.19-rc8 tag is the
> same as in Linus's tree, so the flow is:

I'm confused what is the problem here?

>From https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm/drm-misc
 * branch                          drm-misc-next -> FETCH_HEAD

$ git show FETCH_HEAD
commit 779ec12c85c9e4547519e3903a371a3b26a289de
Author: Alexander Konyukhov <Alexander.Konyukhov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Feb 3 16:48:46 2026 +0300

    drm/komeda: fix integer overflow in AFBC framebuffer size check

$ git merge-base  FETCH_HEAD 61ceaf236115f20f4fdd7cf60f883ada1063349a
24d479d26b25bce5faea3ddd9fa8f3a6c3129ea7
$ git describe --contains 24d479d26b25bce5faea3ddd9fa8f3a6c3129ea7
v6.19-rc6^0

$ git log --oneline 61ceaf236115f20f4fdd7cf60f883ada1063349a ^FETCH_HEAD
61ceaf236115f2 vfio: Prevent from pinned DMABUF importers to attach to VFIO DMABUF

Just pull Alex's tree, the drm-misc-next tree already has v6.19-rc6,
so all they will see is one extra patch from Alex in your PR.

No need to backmerge, this is normal git stuff and there won't be
conflicts when they merge a later Linus tag.

Jason