On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:45 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the nvdimm tree got a conflict in:
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> lib/iov_iter.c
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> between commit:
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> e33ea6e5ba6a ("x86/uaccess: Use pointer masking to limit uaccess speculation")
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> from the vfs tree and commit:
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> 0a78de3d4b7b ("x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()")
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> from the nvdimm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I just used the latter, but I suspect that more work is
> needed) and can carry the fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as
> linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned
> to your upstream maintainer when your tree is submitted for merging.
> You may also want to consider cooperating with the maintainer of the
> conflicting tree to minimise any particularly complex conflicts.
I messed up, this shouldn't be present in -next, yet. Will remove.
