LWN: Comments on "Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6" https://lwn.net/Articles/1029716/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6". en-us Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:30:30 +0000 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:30:30 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Looks like someone else noticed the same bug https://lwn.net/Articles/1029718/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1029718/ neggles if anyone else is curious about what the relevant issue is/was, <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wi8+Ecn9VJH8WYPb7BR4ECYRZGKiiWdhcCjTKZbNkbTkQ@mail.gmail.com/">here's the message where Linus found the culprit</a>, an attempted epoll priority inversion fix. I also found a patch <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250711-epoll-recursion-fix-v1-1-fb2457c33292@google.com/">from a few days ago</a> that looks like a fix for the regression and the issue that it was originally trying to fix? Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:08:32 +0000