WTF: patch "[PATCH] drm/i915: Fix init_clock_gating for resume" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree?

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to 
<stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:02:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix init_clock_gating for resume
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Moving the init_clock_gating() call from intel_modeset_init_hw() to
intel_modeset_gem_init() had an unintended effect of not applying
some workarounds on resume. This, for example, cause some kind of
corruption to appear at the top of my IVB Thinkpad X1 Carbon LVDS
screen after hibernation. Fix the problem by explicitly calling
init_clock_gating() from the resume path.

I really hope this doesn't break something else again. At least
the problems reported at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103549
didn't make a comeback, even after a hibernate cycle.

v2: Reorder the init_clock_gating vs. modeset_init_hw to match
    the display reset path (Rodrigo)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Fixes: 6ac43272768c ("drm/i915: Move init_clock_gating() back to where it was")
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171116160215.25715-1-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 675f7ff35bd256e65d3d0f52718d8babf5d1002a)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 34191028bbad..7d9b07df32fa 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ static int i915_drm_resume(struct drm_device *dev)
 	intel_guc_resume(dev_priv);
 
 	intel_modeset_init_hw(dev);
+	intel_init_clock_gating(dev_priv);
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&dev_priv->irq_lock);
 	if (dev_priv->display.hpd_irq_setup)