linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for v6.16-rc6 (follow up)

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Message-ID: <20250711123444.71747051@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:34:44 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Simona Vetter
 <simona@...ll.ch>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for v6.16-rc6 (follow up)

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:30:28 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I spent several hours yesterday chasing all the wrong things (because
> > I thought it was in drm), and often thought "Oh, that fixed it". Only
> > to then realize that nope, the problem still happens.
> >
> > I will test the reverts. Several times.  
> 
> Well, the first boot with those three commits reverted shows no problem at all.
> 
> But as mentioned, I've now had "Oh, that fixed it" about ten times.
> 
> So that "Oh, it worked this time" has been tainted by past experience.
> Will do several more boots now in the hope that it's gone for good.

Fingers crossed. FWIW /proc/net/netlink should show the socket
drop counters. But my laptop running 6.15 has a number of 
GNOME apps which never read their sockets so it's not going to
be as immediately obvious whether we regressed or its a bad app 
as I hoped.