It turns that rebasing without updating the Fixes tag is sort of common. I wrote a script to find the invalid tags from the last month and have include the output below. Two of the patches are in -mm and presumably Andrew is going fold the Fixes commit into the original commit when these are sent upstream so those aren't a real issue. We could probably try catching rebased trees when they are merged in linux-next? I'll play with this and see if it works. But we're going to end up missing some. Maybe we need a file with a mapping of rebased hashes which has something like: 28252e08649f 0df68ce4c26a ("iscv: Prepare ptdump for vm layout dynamic addresses") 42ae341756da d338ae6ff2d8 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode") regards, dan carpenter #!/usr/bin/perl open HASHES, '-|', 'git log --since="1 month ago" --grep="Fixes:" --pretty=format:"%h"' or die $@; my $hash; while (defined($hash = <HASHES>)) { chomp($hash); my @commit_msg=`git show --pretty="%b" -s $hash`; foreach my $line (@commit_msg) { if ($line =~ /^Fixes: ([0-9a-f]*?) /) { my $fix_hash = $1; if (system("git merge-base --is-ancestor $fix_hash linux-next")) { print "$hash $line"; } } } } close HASHES; Here is the output, of invalid fixes tag in the last month. 28252e08649f Fixes: e9efb21fe352 ("riscv: Prepare ptdump for vm layout dynamic addresses") 42ae341756da Fixes: f2bf15fb0969 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode") eda5613016da Fixes: 5b109cc1cdcc ("hugetlb/userfaultfd: forbid huge pmd sharing when uffd enabled") 85021fe9d800 Fixes: 1ace37b873c2 ("drm/amdgpu/display: Implement functions to let DC allocate GPU memory") caa93d9bd2d7 Fixes: 855b35ea96c4 ("usb: common: move function's kerneldoc next to its definition") 0f66f043d0dc Fixes: cabcebc31de4 ("cifsd: introduce SMB3 kernel server") 3ada5c1c27ca Fixes: 788b6f45c1d2 ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3") 0e672f306a28 Fixes: 6788fa154546 ("veth: allow enabling NAPI even without XDP") aec00aa04b11 Fixes: 830027e2cb55 ("KEYS: trusted: Add generic trusted keys framework") ef32e0513a13 Fixes: 67982dfa59de ("usb: cdns3: imx: add power lost support for system resume")