Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/105] 4.9.55-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 08:13:14 EST


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:54:26PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:39:52PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:54:51PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > On 10/11/2017 06:56 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 06:58:40PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > >> On 10/10/2017 01:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.55 release.
> > > >>> There are 105 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > >>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > >>> let me know.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Responses should be made by Thu Oct 12 19:24:56 UTC 2017.
> > > >>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >>> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.55-rc1.gz
> > > >>> or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > > >>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> thanks,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> greg k-h
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Compiled and booted. Networking is dead. I will bisect tomorrow and
> > > >> let you know what I find.
> > > >>
> > > >> r8169 is the suspect perhaps or some other change that affects it.
> > > >> Anyway more on this tomorrow.
> > > >
> > > > Odd, let me know if you find anything.
> > > >
> > >
> > > git bisect came up with the following:
> > >
> > > # first bad commit: [830e3de48a789f8d294a0d1461600f958afddde4]
> > > ip6_gre: skb_push ipv6hdr before packing the header in ip6gre_header
> > >
> > > However, reverting this commit didn't work either. I might have to
> > > start bisect again. Update for now in case David or Xin Long can
> > > think of something that could possibly lead this failure. There are
> > > a few more patches in this space.
> >
> > What is the symptom of the networking failure? No networking device?
> > No dhcp request? ipv4 or ipv6? Differences in dmesg?
>
> Hm, I'm getting an odd report from some of the google auto-builders
> about a networking issue as well with 4.9. So you might be onto
> something here. I really have no insight into the google tests to
> figure out what it is doing, but I can feed it patches to test, so I'll
> try reverting this patch to see if it solves anything or not...

Nope reverting that failed as well, I'm running out of time at the
moment to test this, will be able to pick it back up later this evening
or tomorrow, so any help you could provide here would be great.

thanks,

greg k-h