On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 12:37:11AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:

Hi Greg, Sasha

Commit 04361b8bb818 ("net: sfp: fix state loss when updating state_hw_mask")

ends with:

Fixes: 8475c4b70b04 ("net: sfp: re-implement soft state polling setup")

git tag --contains 8475c4b70b04

shows that the problem was introduced in v6.1-rc1. However, the fix has not been backported yet to v6.1.X

Is the Fixes: tag not sufficient to trigger the machinery to get it back ported?

Not at all! Please see the rules at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly.

A "bare" Fixes: tag never guarantees that it will ever go to a stable tree, you MUST put a cc: stable on it in order to make sure that happens.

It's been that way for 18+ years now, nothing new :)

Please could you back port it. It cleanly cherry-picks to v6.1.33

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h