[GIT PULL] Networking for v6.16-rc6 (follow up)

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Fri Jul 11 19:34:44 UTC 2025


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.


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