Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the pidfd tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:54:41 +1100

Hi all,

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:43:51 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   2f221d6f7b88 ("attr: handle idmapped mounts")
> 
> from the pidfd tree and commit:
> 
>   57d3629b7a9a ("hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()")
> 
> from the akpm-current 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.
> 
> diff --cc fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> index c5c32eb59498,ca9e25427f2d..000000000000
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@@ -760,9 -766,7 +767,7 @@@ static int hugetlbfs_setattr(struct use
>   	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
>   	struct hugetlbfs_inode_info *info = HUGETLBFS_I(inode);
>   
> - 	BUG_ON(!inode);
> - 
>  -	error = setattr_prepare(dentry, attr);
>  +	error = setattr_prepare(&init_user_ns, dentry, attr);
>   	if (error)
>   		return error;
>   

With the merge window about to open, this is a reminder that this
conflict still exists.

The akpm-current commit is now

  b557c21f61f8 ("hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()")

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell