Quoting Dave Airlie (2019-11-14 03:33:24) > The landing of the i915 CVE fixes into Linus tree has created a bit of > a mess in linux-next and downstream in drm-next trees. > > I talked to Daniel and he had talked to Joonas a bit, and I decided to > go with what Daniel describes as the YOLO merge, where I just solve it > and pray, and everyone else verifies/fixes it. > > In my favour I've been reading these patches for a couple of months > now and applied them to a lot of places, so I'm quite familiar with > what they are doing. > > The worst culprit was the RC6 ctx corruption fix since the whole of > rc6 got refactored in next. However I also had access to a version of > this patch Jon wrote on drm-tip a couple of weeks ago. We've now tested drm-next and found it working fine. As a next step Jani will be backmerge to drm-intel-next-queued. Regards, Joonas > I took that patch, applied it and fixed it up on top of drm-next. Then > I backmerged the commit that also went into Linus' tree. Then I > removed any evidence of the RC6 patch from Linus' tree and left the > newer version pieces in place. The other stuff mostly merged fine and > the results looked fine, but I'd definitely think everyone at Intel > should be staring at it, and my dinq tip resolutions ASAP and > hopefully it goes into CI and comes out smelling of something good. > > Let me know if it's all horrible asap, > Thanks, > Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
