linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] - BROKEN NETWORKING Re: Linux 6.16.3

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Message-ID: <2025082553-overripe-sanction-bc82@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:29:05 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net,
	jslaby@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] - BROKEN NETWORKING Re: Linux 6.16.3

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 09:00:14AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 11:31:01AM -0700, Kyle Sanderson wrote:
> > On 8/23/2025 7:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.3 kernel.
> > > 
> > > All users of the 6.16 kernel series that use the ext4 filesystem should
> > > upgrade.
> > > 
> > > The updated 6.16.y git tree can be found at:
> > > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.16.y
> > > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> > > 	https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > greg k-h
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Thanks for maintaining these as always. For the first time in a long time, I
> > booted the latest stable (6.15.x -> 6.16.3) and somehow lost my networking.
> > It looks like there is a patch from Intel (reported by AMD) that did not
> > make it into stable 6.16.
> > 
> > e67a0bc3ed4fd8ee1697cb6d937e2b294ec13b5e - ixgbe
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/94d7d5c0bb4fc171154ccff36e85261a9f186923.1755661118.git.calvin@wbinvd.org/
> > - i40e
> 
> Any specific reason why this hasn't been asked to be backported to
> stable trees if it fixes an issue?   Please cc: the developers involved
> so that they know to let us pick it up.

I've picked it up now, simple enough.