Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/370] 5.15.111-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 06:09:35PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:58 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks!  Turns out someone put the wrong "Fixes:" tag in that commit
> > which is why I missed it.
> 
> Hmm. Presumably the real commit ceeadb83aea2 at some point got
> rebased, and had had that other mentioned SHA1 before that.
> 
> It might be a good idea in general - not just for stable - if we had
> some automation that said "this refers to a commit ID that doesn't
> exist".

We have that in linux-next today (or at least we used to, I took the
scripts from linux-next and rely on them to catch this in my trees.)
I cleaned up the scripts and posted them to the kernel workgroup mailing
list a long time ago for any other maintainer to also use, I've attached
it below as well.

I run across this issue 2-3 times each -rc release, it's quite common
but very low overall.

thanks,

greg k-h

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