Hi Linus,
On Wed, 10 May 2023 18:09:35 -0500 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:58 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 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".
In linux-next, I report various problems with Fixes tags including when the SHA1 doesn't exist (or is not reachable from the fixing commit. Sometimes they are corrected, sometimes not (especially if it is a non rebasing branch).