Re: [REGRESSION] v6.16 system hangs (bisected to nf_conntrack fix)

[Dan Moulding <dan@danm.net>]

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> > Strange.  Can you completely revert 2d72afb340657f03f7261e9243b44457a9228ac7
> > and then apply this patch instead?
> 
> Any news?

For some reason, I can no longer reproduce the problem in new kernels
that I build. I can still reproduce it in the kernels that I built
last week. But if I build a new one, from the same commit as I was
able to reproduce it from before, the new kernel build can't reproduce
it. I didn't change anything (like compiler version) since. So I'm
stumped.

I'm not sure what this means, other than that I can't test any new
patches because any new build I do doesn't exhibit the problem. I
guess at this point I can't rule out some kind of hardware failure on
my end (though that would seem very strange that it would consistently
point to a specific commit, and the problem went away after reverting,
if it was a hardware problem).

So maybe we can ignore this for now and see if it comes up again with
anyone else.

Cheers,

-- Dan