On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:51 AM Paul Gortmaker <
paul.gortma...@windriver.com> wrote:

> [Re: v4.18.x - stable updates comprising v4.18.38] On 16/05/2019 (Thu
> 16:47) Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > The conflicts just look like one of the changes is already in my tree
> .. which
> > > IIRC is the case, but it would be great if you could check the latest
> branches
> > > and confirm the commit I should revert before merging this.
> >
> > OK -- I'll have a look at doing the merge locally and let you know.
>
> Your guess is correct, but it is three duplicates and not just one.
>
> So, if we look at 4.18/standard base and run:
>
>    git log --oneline --no-merges  ^v4.18.37 HEAD  net/ipv4/
>
>    ecf31c809599 ip: frags: fix crash in ip_do_fragment()
>    02fc22c5eb30 ip: use rb trees for IP frag queue.
>    7a9f904c49aa ip: discard IPv4 datagrams with overlapping segments.
>
> These are all part of the 4.18.38 content, but it appears that these
> earlier backports in Yocto were done w/o stacking the dependencies
> underneath so that they could be used as-is.  Apparently that meant
> git-merge wasn't able to recognize the duplicated content, leading to a
> needlessly complex merge.
>
> However, nothing is stacked on top of them, so a LIFO rewind as:
>
>    git revert ecf31c809599
>    git revert 02fc22c5eb30
>    git revert 7a9f904c49aa
>
> ...then allows a "git merge v4.18.38" to be 100% conflict free.
>
>
Thanks Paul,

This fixed things up for me. I had a minor conflict in -rt, but I fixed it
up. If I did screw up the resolution, let me know.

This is now merged and pushed.

Bruce




> Paul.
>


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