linux-kernel - Re: Bad commit backported on the v5.15.y branch ?

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Message-ID: <2024101626-savings-ensnare-1ac2@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:53:17 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Joel GUITTET <jguittet.opensource@...ekio.com>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
	Jay Buddhabhatti <jay.buddhabhatti@....com>,
	Linux kernel regressions list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad commit backported on the v5.15.y branch ?

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:23:10AM +0000, Joel GUITTET wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Thorsten.
> 
> So is anybody able to indicate why this commit 1fe15be1fb6135 has been backported to 5.15.y?

Because it has a "Fixes:" tag on it.  Is that tag not correct?

> Actually this creates a bug on v5.15 (see commands executed in my original message).

What "original message"?

> I don't know for 6.8 or 6.12 release, I'm not able to update my target with such gap.

It's already in the following releases:
	5.10.209 5.15.148 6.1.75 6.6.14 6.7.2 6.8
so if it needs to be reverted somewhere, please send the reverts with
the reason why.

thanks,

greg k-h