From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing backport for 04361b8bb818 ("net: sfp: fix state loss when updating state_hw_mask")
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 09:24:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023061137-algorithm-almanac-1337@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99df4175-f41a-47d1-9d55-99e1976e8127@lunn.ch>
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 12:37:11AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Greg, Sasha
>
> Commit 04361b8bb818 ("net: sfp: fix state loss when updating state_hw_mask")
>
> ends with:
>
> Fixes: 8475c4b70b04 ("net: sfp: re-implement soft state polling setup")
>
> git tag --contains 8475c4b70b04
>
> shows that the problem was introduced in v6.1-rc1. However, the fix
> has not been backported yet to v6.1.X
>
> Is the Fixes: tag not sufficient to trigger the machinery to get it
> back ported?
Not at all! Please see the rules at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
A "bare" Fixes: tag never guarantees that it will ever go to a stable
tree, you MUST put a cc: stable on it in order to make sure that
happens.
It's been that way for 18+ years now, nothing new :)
> Please could you back port it. It cleanly cherry-picks to v6.1.33
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2023-06-10 22:37 Missing backport for 04361b8bb818 ("net: sfp: fix state loss when updating state_hw_mask") Andrew Lunn
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