WTF: patch "[PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Define static symbols" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 6.0-stable tree?

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 6.0-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <[email protected]> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 2c57d0defa22b2339c06364a275bcc9048a77255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nilesh Javali <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:25:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Define static symbols

drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:40:20: warning: symbol 'qla_trc_array' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:345:5: warning: symbol 'ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling' was not declared. Should it be static?

Define qla_trc_array and ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling as static to fix sparse warnings.

index f76ae8a64ea9..0ccaeea4e1bd 100644
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int apidev_major;
  */
 struct kmem_cache *srb_cachep;
 
-struct trace_array *qla_trc_array;
+static struct trace_array *qla_trc_array;
 
 int ql2xfulldump_on_mpifail;
 module_param(ql2xfulldump_on_mpifail, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);

@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ql2xabts_wait_nvme,
 		 "To wait for ABTS response on I/O timeouts for NVMe. (default: 1)");
 
 
-u32 ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling = 5;
+static u32 ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling = 5;
 module_param(ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling, uint, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling,
 	"Number of seconds delayed before qla begin PCI error self-handling (default: 5).\n");