Re: [PATCH 5.10 125/135] drm/i915: avoid uninitialised var in eb_parse()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 09:28:43AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The backport of c9d9fdbc108af8915d3f497bbdf3898bf8f321b8 to 5.10 in
> > 6976f3cf34a1a8b791c048bbaa411ebfe48666b1 removed more than it should
> > have leading to 'batch' being used uninitialised.  The 5.13 backport and
> > the mainline commit did not remove the portion this patch adds back.
> 
> This patch has no upstream equivalent, right?
> 
> Which is okay -- it explains it in plain english, but it shows that
> scripts should not simply search for anything that looks like SHA and
> treat it as upsteam commit it.

Sounds like you have a broken script if you do it that way.

good luck!

greg k-h