From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "xfrm: propagate extack to all netlink doit handlers" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:51:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arOTGAw0cDSexlez@krikkit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026-09-22-daily-reply-0007-re-xfrm-extack-dep-chain@kernel.org>
2026-09-22, 11:39:00 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > You're backporting all this stuff to avoid a completely trivial
> > conflict on the nlmsg_unicast call in the context for d1ebd9081879? :/
>
> Yes, and you are right that the conflict is trivial. The deps went in so that
> d1ebd9081879 ("xfrm: fix compat ALLOCSPI request use-after-free") stays a
> mechanical cherry-pick on every tree instead of a hand-resolved one.
>
> This makes it much easier for us to maintain the trees for longer, as there are
> less conflicts we will need to resolve in the future.
I'm quite familiar with that problem. Oh well, I guess those other
patches are correct enough when applied on top of this old stuff.
--
Sabrina
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2026-09-22 7:49 ` Patch "xfrm: propagate extack to all netlink doit handlers" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree Sabrina Dubroca
2026-09-22 15:39 ` Sasha Levin
2026-09-23 8:51 ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
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