Re: Backport request

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 09:02:11AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/04/2026 08:46, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 08:39:29AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 23/04/2026 06:55, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:04:50PM +0100, Josh Law wrote:
> >>>> Hello, I would like backports for 
> >>>>
> >>>> Mainline hashes:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8cdf30813ea8ce881cecc08664144416dbdb3e16
> >>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9003ec6f7f394943880618737d797a9f257e6e1e
> >>>
> >>> None of those have showed up in an actual release yet, so why should
> >>> they be included "early"?
> >>
> >> None of the code was tested as Josh Law lied more than once about tests
> >> [1] or laughed at us when we asked for testing:
> >>
> >> "laugh my ass out and your test cases, absolutely ill add some test
> >> cases" [2]
> >>
> >> and then Josh Law was pushing his patches to get merged:
> >>
> >> "This most definitely needs to be merged." [3]
> >> "Yeah in my opinion I think this may need to be merged.. if you would
> >> like I can add the NOWARN" [4]
> >>
> >> And now we see a push for these commits to stable!
> >>
> >> Nothing from Josh Law should be going to stable trees, because nothing
> >> was ever tested.
> > 
> > Makes sense, is anyone going to send reverts for these?
> 
> Untested does not mean yet incorrect, so not sure if we need to act on
> already accepted commits getting to stable. Especially that for a revert
> I would need to provide some stronger arguments, IMO. Easier to drop
> from the queue in review.
> 
> OTOH, if the actor is not trusted, a past correct patch is not a
> positive indication for another patch. Untrusted, for whatever reason,
> actor can write correct patches for some time...
> 
> When untrusted person pushes why things are not in stable, it feels to
> me like a warning sign.

Fair enough, I'll just drop these from the stable queue and not worry
about them UNLESS someone can prove that they actually fix a real bug.

thanks,

greg k-h