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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts: stable: add script to validate backports
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:03:35PM -0600, Tom Saeger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:55:27AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 01:28:38PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:05 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The only time git gets involved is when we do a -rc release or when we
> > > > do a "real" release, and then we use 'git quiltimport' on the whole
> > > > stack.
> > > >
> > > > Here's a script that I use (much too slow, I know), for checking this
> > > > type of thing and I try to remember to run it before every cycle of -rc
> > > > releases:
> > > > https://github.com/gregkh/commit_tree/blob/master/find_fixes_in_queue
> > > >
> > > > It's a hack, and picks up more things than is really needed, but I would
> > > > rather it error on that side than the other.
> > >
> > > Yes, my script is similar. Looks like yours also runs on a git tree.
> > >
> > > I noticed that id_fixed_in runs `git grep -l --threads=3 <sha>` to
> > > find fixes; that's neat, I didn't know about `--threads=`. I tried it
> > > with ae46578b963f manually:
> > >
> > > $ git grep -l --threads=3 ae46578b963f
> > > $
> > >
> > > Should it have found a7889c6320b9 and 773e0c402534? Perhaps `git log
> > > --grep=<sha>` should be used instead? I thought `git grep` only greps
> > > files in the archive, not commit history?
> >
> > Yes, it does only grep the files in the archive.
> >
> > But look closer at the archive that this script lives in :)
> >
> > This archive is a "blown up" copy of the Linux kernel tree, with one
> > file per commit. The name of the file is the commit id, and the content
> > of the file is the changelog of the commit itself.
> >
> > So it's a hack that I use to be able to simply search the changelogs of
> > all commits to find out if they have a "Fixes:" tag with a specific
> > commit id in it.
> >
> > So in your example above, in the repo I run it and get:
> >
> > ~/linux/stable/commit_tree $ git grep -l --threads=3 ae46578b963f
> > changes/5.2/773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed
> > ids/5.2
> >
> > Which shows me that in commit 773e0c402534 ("afs: Fix
> > afs_xattr_get_yfs() to not try freeing an error value") in the kernel
> > tree, it has a "Fixes:" tag that references "ae46578b963f".
> >
> > It also shows me that commit ae46578b963f was contained in the 5.2
> > kernel release, as I use the "ids/" subdirectory here for other fast
> > lookups (it's a tiny bit faster than 'git describe --contains').
> >
> > I don't know how your script is walking through all possible commits to
> > see if they are fixing a specific one, maybe I should look and see if
> > it's doing it better than my "git tree/directory as a database hack"
> > does :)
>
> FWIW,
>
> I had a need for something similar and found `git rev-list --grep` provided fastest
> results. Does not provide for the "ids/" hack though...
>
> ❯ N="ae46578b963f"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..upstream/master" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done
> a7889c6320b9200e3fe415238f546db677310fa9 Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs")
> 773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs")
>
> ❯ N="a7889c6320b9"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..stable/linux-5.4.y" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done
> 6712b7fcef9d1092e99733645cf52cfb3d482555 commit a7889c6320b9200e3fe415238f546db677310fa9 upstream.
>
> ❯ N="ae46578b963f"; git rev-list --grep="${N}" "${N}..stable/linux-5.4.y" | while read -r hid ; do git log -n1 "${hid}" | grep -F "${N}" | sed "s#^#${hid} #"; done
> 6712b7fcef9d1092e99733645cf52cfb3d482555 Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs")
> 773e0c40253443e0ce5491cb0e414b62f7cc45ed Fixes: ae46578b963f ("afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs")
>
>

Ah, I did not know about 'git rev-list --grep' thanks! I'll play around
with that to see if it actually is any faster than my implementation...

thanks,

greg k-h

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