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[195.231.47.232]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49d0656e7bbsm357727445e9.10.2026.09.09.03.34.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <83dd4915-e7a3-4c7e-91dd-adbea16450b3@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 12:34:42 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Some clarifications on the upstreaming process To: Steffen Klassert Cc: David Miller , Jakub Kicinski , Herbert Xu , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20260907093020.2228346-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> <70d0048d-694b-4348-a6a5-de87a767b8fd@redhat.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Paolo Abeni In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/9/26 12:23 PM, Steffen Klassert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 11:23:56AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote: >> On 9/9/26 8:38 AM, Steffen Klassert wrote: >>> I need some clarifications on how to handle future ipsec patches. >>> Since we have the AI-generated patches and patch reviews things >>> changed quite a bit and I have problems to upstream ipsec fixes. >>> >>> I have the following problematic situations: >>> >>> 1) Sashiko found nothing in the original patch submisstion, >>> but found an issue when I resent the patch with the pull >>> request. I think this can be solved by asking the author >>> to send an incremental fix on top of the ipsec tree if >>> it does not happen too often. >> >> This is usually the correct approach, with some exceptions i.e. the >> newly found issue is impactful (the new code is exploitable). > > Are you willing to pull this as is, or should I resend the pull > request with the incremental fix? The latter leads to problem > 4.1 (patch does not apply to net). Due to time schedule I can't look into the series detail before tomorrow my time. Since Jakub forwarded the AI report and left the series in PW I assume he is looking for your replies to the AI comments - which is pretty much would I'll do. /P