Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758793Ab3EOAHX (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 20:07:23 -0400 Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:12493 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758685Ab3EOAHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 20:07:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 01:07:15 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Holger Hoffstaette Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: r8169 on 3.8.13, 3.9.2, 3.10-rc1, was Re: [ 00/73] 3.8.13-stable review Message-ID: <20130515000715.GA20099@milliways> References: <20130509222757.917088509@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=AUhbpHVS+xhHrj9wLCYAQoYnFLYUZdbP8UM0GmH2jwk= c=1 sm=0 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=DKufjtCz-h8A:10 a=uObrxnre4hsA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=DfNHnWVPAAAA:8 a=WgTq_mZlXGbTuIDsb-AA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lBRciGGoxdUA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2393 Lines: 58 On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54:27PM +0200, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: Cc'ing to netdev because I don't think this has had a response, and I care because I *might* be seeing the same problem on both 3.9.2 and 3.10-rc1, but my take on the problem is slightly different [ details after Holger's posting ] > On Thu, 09 May 2013 15:31:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.13 release. There > > This patchset broke my internet, with all sorts of weird effects like > Samba clients having problems to talk to the server and only partially > working DNS resolution (CDNs broken, Amazon unreachable). > > After two reboots to/from .12/.13 (to rule out temporary internet > brokenness) the problem has been identified as: > > > Stefan Bader > > r8169: fix 8168evl frame padding. > > After reverting only this patch (turning r8169 back to 3.8.12) things > again behave as expected with the rest of .13. So far no other regressions > detected. > > This patch should probably be removed from 3.9.2-rc as well. > > -h > For me, I'm seeing what might be a similar problem in about 2/5 of my boots of 3.9.2 and 3.10-rc1 : in my case, r8169 is a module [ most things are built in ], I use dhclient to get an ip address, and I have separate nfs shares for /sources [ in /etc/mtab ] and my user's ~/notes [ mounted from ~/.bashrc ]. On a good boot, everything mounts. On a bad boot, /sources is NOT mounted because eth0 is not up, but by the time anyone logs in it _is_ up so mounting ~/notes [and manually mounting /sources as root] works. What seems to be happening is that eth0 is coming up slightly later on some occasions (about 11 seconds from booting, instead of 10.5 seconds) and somehow the dhclient script seems to have ended *before* that. For me, this isn't bisectable (so far, 10 boots of 3.9.2 and 3.10-rc1 on this box, and 4 were problematic). On this box, 3.9.0 itself was perfect. Holger : apologies if I've hijacked this thread with what turns out to be a different problem. ken -- das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/