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