Re: AMD drm patch workflow is broken for stable trees

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Resending now that rc1 is out.  These should be ignored for stable.

8151a6c13111 drm/amd/display: Skip Recompute DSC Params if no Stream on Link
fbfb5f034225 drm/amdgpu: fix contiguous handling for IB parsing v2
ec0d7abbb0d4 drm/amd/display: Fix Potential Null Dereference
332315885d3c drm/amd/display: Remove ASSERT if significance is zero in
math_ceil2
295d91cbc700 drm/amd/display: Check for NULL pointer
6472de66c0aa drm/amd/amdgpu: Fix uninitialized variable warnings
93381e6b6180 drm/amdgpu: fix a possible null pointer dereference
7a38efeee6b5 drm/radeon: fix null pointer dereference in radeon_add_common_modes


Alex

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 1:23 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:18:27AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 1:23 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 05:30:08PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 2024-08-12 11:00, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > As some of you have noticed, there's a TON of failure messages being
> > > > > > > > sent out for AMD gpu driver commits that are tagged for stable
> > > > > > > > backports.  In short, you all are doing something really wrong with how
> > > > > > > > you are tagging these.
> > > > > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I got notifications about one KFD patch failing to apply on six branches
> > > > > > > (6.10, 6.6, 6.1, 5.15, 5.10 and 5.4). The funny thing is, that you
> > > > > > > already applied this patch on two branches back in May. The emails had a
> > > > > > > suspicious looking date in the header (Sep 17, 2001). I wonder if there
> > > > > > > was some date glitch that caused a whole bunch of patches to be re-sent
> > > > > > > to stable somehow:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think the crux of the problem is that sometimes patches go into
> > > > > > -next with stable tags and they end getting taken into -fixes as well
> > > > > > so after the merge window they end up getting picked up for stable
> > > > > > again.  Going forward, if they land in -next, I'll cherry-pick -x the
> > > > > > changes into -fixes so there is better traceability.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please do so, and also work to not have duplicate commits like this in
> > > > > different branches.  Git can handle merges quite well, please use it.
> > > > >
> > > > > If this shows up again in the next -rc1 merge window without any
> > > > > changes, I'll have to just blackhole all amd drm patches going forward
> > > > > until you all tell me you have fixed your development process.
> > > >
> > > > Just a heads up, you will see some of these when the 6.12 merge window
> > > > due to what is currently in -next and the fixes that went into 6.11,
> > > > but going forward we have updated our process and it should be better.
> > >
> > > Can you give me a list of the git ids that I should be ignoring for
> > > 6.12-rc1?  Otherwise again, it's a huge waste of time on my side trying
> > > to sift through them and figure out if the rejection is real or not...
> >
> > 8151a6c13111 drm/amd/display: Skip Recompute DSC Params if no Stream on Link
> > fbfb5f034225 drm/amdgpu: fix contiguous handling for IB parsing v2
> > ec0d7abbb0d4 drm/amd/display: Fix Potential Null Dereference
> > 332315885d3c drm/amd/display: Remove ASSERT if significance is zero in
> > math_ceil2
> > 295d91cbc700 drm/amd/display: Check for NULL pointer
> > 6472de66c0aa drm/amd/amdgpu: Fix uninitialized variable warnings
> > 93381e6b6180 drm/amdgpu: fix a possible null pointer dereference
> > 7a38efeee6b5 drm/radeon: fix null pointer dereference in radeon_add_common_modes
>
> Please resend this after -rc1 is out, so we don't have to hunt for it
> again.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h





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