Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:16:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree |
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > Hi Kees, > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:56:30 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> I sent a series for -mm (or maintainers) to merge that should catch >> everything. Do you want me to carry it in my kspp tree instead? (My >> original intention was to carry all the fixes and the fortify patch in >> kspp but akpm took it into -mm somewhat unexpectedly, not that I'm >> complaining.) > > Andrew is currently not responding to stuff (he warned us last week), > so if you do put the series in your tree, I will remove it from my copy > of Andrew's quilt series. All the fixes necessary to make this usable > should really be in the same tree if possible. > > (I am assuming that the fix patches have been reviewed and acked by > appropriate people.)
Mostly, yes. But they're usually trivial. All have been sent out for review (some a few times).
Given that the fixes are already scattered between various trees and you merge -mm last in -next, I'll just carry the remaining fixes and you can leave akpm's fortify patch in -mm.
-Kees
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