linux-kernel - Re: [for-next][PATCH 3/8] tracing: Make sure variable reference alias has correct var_ref

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Date:   Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:21:08 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 3/8] tracing: Make sure variable reference
 alias has correct var_ref_idx

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 08:20:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:06:18 +0000
>Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [This is an automated email]
>>
>> This commit has been processed because it contains a "Fixes:" tag,
>> fixing commit: .
>>
>> The bot has tested the following trees: v5.2.16, v4.19.74, v4.14.145, v4.9.193, v4.4.193.
>
>
>The fixes tag is 7e8b88a30b085 which was added to mainline in 4.17.
>According to this email, it applies fine to 5.2 and 4.19, but fails on
>4.14 and earlier. As the commit was added in 4.17 that makes perfect
>sense. Can you update your scripts to test when the fixes commit was
>added, and not send spam about it not applying to stable trees where
>it's not applicable.

The script already does that. What happened here is that it got confused
with your previous "Fixes:" statement in the commit message and went
haywire.

I thought that something like this shouldn't happen because I grep for
"^fixes:", but looks like something is broken. I'll go fix that...


--
Thanks,
Sasha