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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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...

thanks,

greg k-h