Re: Backport patch that wasn't dropped, but not applied in the actual stable release
Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:34:15 -0400
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.regressions,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 10:14:26AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >On 7/21/26 20:51, Alex L. wrote: >> Hello, I'm writing with regards to drm-amd-display-fix-ism-dc_lock- >> deadlock-during-susp.patch that can be found in the stable-queue >> repo, under releases/7.1.3/ on the master branch. (https:// >> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ >> releases/7.1.3/drm-amd-display-fix-ism-dc_lock-deadlock-during- >> susp.patch) >> >> Despite being under the releases directory to this date, this patch >> wasn't actually applied in the 7.1.3 release upon inspection of the >> stable tree. It also wasn't included in the release announcement for >> 7.1.3 nor the diffstat within. It wasn't even included in the RC's >> for 7.1.3. I have searched the stable mailing list and the stable- >> queue repo's commit histories to establish whether the patch was >> dropped later for some reason - to my knowledge, this doesn't appear >> to be the case. >> >> On further investigation I found that the commit that first >> introduced this patch to stable-queue's queue-7.1/ added the patch >> file to the directory, but did not add it to the queue-7.1/series >> file. (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable- >> queue.git/commit/?id=76522806dbfb58941f6fa4b6116b891b66689613) >> >> Could this be an accidental omission of the patch due to it not >> being on the series file, or was there some other reason that the >> patch was not included? As a user who's affected by the regression >> that the patch addresses, I would very much appreciate it being >> included in future 7.1.y releases. >Greg, Sasha, from a quick look this analysis seems correct. Did some >script do something odd? Or did Alex and I miss something: > >Reminder, it was Sasha that queued the patch for 7.1: >https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ > >Sashiko shortly afterwards (see thread) complained about two things, but >those were pre-existing issues (without any fixes in mainline, at least >I did not spon any references for it). You're right - thanks for the report. I'll queue it up again. -- Thanks, Sasha