On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 6:38 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:13 AM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kun...@amazon.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > From:   David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> > Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:10:51 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kun...@amazon.co.jp>
> > > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:52:27 +0900
> > >
> > > > This patch removes an unnecessary variable in udp[46]_lib_lookup2() and
> > > > makes it easier to resolve a merge conflict with bpf-next reported in
> > > > the link below.
> > > >
> > > > Link: 
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20200722132143.700a5...@canb.auug.org.au/
> > > > Fixes: efc6b6f6c311 ("udp: Improve load balancing for SO_REUSEPORT.")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kun...@amazon.co.jp>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <ja...@cloudflare.com>
> > > > Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > This doesn't apply to net-next.
> >
> > Yes. I think this kind of patch should be submitted to net-next, but this
> > is for the net tree. Please let me add more description.
> >
> > Currently, the net and net-next trees conflict in udp[46]_lib_lookup2()
> > between
> >
> >    efc6b6f6c311 ("udp: Improve load balancing for SO_REUSEPORT.")
> >
> > and
> >
> >    7629c73a1466 ("udp: Extract helper for selecting socket from reuseport 
> > group")
> >    2a08748cd384 ("udp6: Extract helper for selecting socket from reuseport 
> > group")
> > .
> >
> > The conflict is reported in the link[0] and Jakub suggested how to resolve
> > it[1]. To ease the merge conflict, Jakub and I have to send follow up 
> > patches to
> > the bpf-next and net trees.
> >
> > Now, his patchset (7629c73a1466 and 2a08748cd384) to bpf-next is merged
> > into net-next, and his follow up patch is applied in bpf-next[2].
> >
> > I fixed a bug in efc6b6f6c311, but it introduced an unnecessary variable
> > and made the conflict worse. So I sent this follow up patch to net tree.
> >
> > However, I do not know the best way to resolve the conflict, so any comments
> > are welcome.
>
> Perhaps simpler is to apply this change to bpf-next:

I'm fine whichever way.
Could you please submit an official patch?

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