Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

Kees Cook
2022-01-31T21:06:09Z

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:10:19AM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On 30 Jan 22:19, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:59:32PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:04:00 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220124172242.2410996-1-keescook@chromium.org/

Fixes: 34802a42b352 ("net/mlx5e: Do not modify the TX SKB")

> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220124172028.2410761-1-keescook@chromium.org/

Fixes: b5503b994ed5 ("net/mlx5e: XDP TX forwarding support")

> > > yeah, neither has made it yet. However, it would not have helped as I
> > > am merging the kspp tree very early so that new bugs get fixed in the
> > > trees that introduce them. These 2 are in Linus tree (for a long time)
> > > and so it would be better if these fixes went int the net tree and then
> > > Linus' tree as bug fixes.
>
> I need proper fixes tags to submit to net, can you provide ?

Sure! See above.

> another option is to use a shared branch with those fixes and pull it to
> both net-next and kspp.

It's just a handful left now, so I think we'll avoid this for now.

Thanks!

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Kees Cook