Re: Missing patches of a patch series during AUTOSEL backport

["Rodríguez Barbarin, José Javier" <josejavier.rodriguez@duagon.com>]

On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 15:59 +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 01:02:39PM +0000, Rodríguez Barbarin, José
> Javier wrote:
> > Dear Sasha Levin,
> > 
> > I am the author of a patch series and I am writting you because I
> > have
> > detected an issue with a patch series I have submitted in May'23.
> > 
> > I sent a series of 3 patches to the maintainer. When he approved
> > them,
> > he sent an email to Greg, requesting him to include such
> > patch series in kernel 6.4.
> > 
> > You can check the email thread here:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411083329.4506-1-jth@kernel.org/
> 
> I totally missed that patch thread as there was no git commit ids in
> it,
> sorry.
> 
> > For a reason I cannot understand, the AUTOSEL only chose 1 of 3
> > patches
> > of the series, so only 1 was backported to stable kernel versions.
> > 
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.3 24/24] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to
> > avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 20/20] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to
> > avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 19/19] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to
> > avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 10/10] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to
> > avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 8/8] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> > memory overlapping
> > 
> > In kernel 6.4 and above, the 3 patches were included.
> 
> autosel comes along later and decided that some of them were to be
> included, that was independent of your email.
> 
> > Including only 1 patch is causing crashes in part of our devices.
> > 
> > Please, could you backport the remaining 2 patches to the stable
> > versions?
> 
> What is the git commit ids that you are asking for to be applied?
> That's a requirement for us to take stuff.
> 
Sure, the commit ids are:

a889c276d33d333ae96697510f33533f6e9d9591 (mcb: Return actual parsed
size when reading chameleon table)

2025b2ca8004c04861903d076c67a73a0ec6dfca (mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory
region to avoid memory overlapping)

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thank you so much.

Regards,