Re: linux-next: manual merge of the userns tree with the fuse tree

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 10:03:22 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the userns tree got a conflict in:
>
> fs/fuse/dev.c
>
> between commits:
>
> dbf107b2a7f3 ("fuse: Remove the buggy retranslation of pids in fuse_dev_do_read")
> c9582eb0ff7d ("fuse: Fail all requests with invalid uids or gids")
> 8cb08329b080 ("fuse: Support fuse filesystems outside of init_user_ns")
>
> from the fuse tree and commits:
>
> dbf107b2a7f3 ("fuse: Remove the buggy retranslation of pids in fuse_dev_do_read")
> c9582eb0ff7d ("fuse: Fail all requests with invalid uids or gids")
> 8cb08329b080 ("fuse: Support fuse filesystems outside of init_user_ns")
>
> from the userns tree.
>
> These commits seem to have been rebased in the fuse tree on top of
>
> 3b7008b226f3 ("fuse: return -ECONNABORTED on /dev/fuse read after abort")
>
> and modified a bit.
>
> I fixed it up (I used the fuse tree version, but please come to
> some arrangement about which is correct) 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.

As Miklos has merged these I plan to drop these changes from my tree.

Eric