Re: linux-next: manual merge of the wireless-next tree with the wireless tree

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Sep 26 2023 - 02:21:58 EST


On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 12:41 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:02:53 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the wireless-next tree got conflicts in:
> >
> > net/mac80211/cfg.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> > 31db78a4923e ("wifi: mac80211: fix potential key use-after-free")
> >
> > from the wireless tree and commit:
> >
> > 4d3acf4311a0 ("wifi: mac80211: remove sta_mtx")
> >
> > from the wireless-next tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (see below) 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.
>
> That wasn't quite right. The final resolution is below.

Thanks Stephen, also for the other one!

I knew about the new ones as well but forgot to give you a heads-up, my
bad, I'm sorry.

I'm planning to submit a wireless pull request today or tomorrow, and
then merge back into wireless-next once it settles in, so this should
hopefully be resolved by the end of the week or so.

Thanks,
johannes