Latest RC causing web browser crash

Latest RC causing web browser crash

[Chris McGimpsey-Jones]

Is anyone else with the latest RC having issues with Google Chrome
browser, causing it to crash after a couple of minutes?
I reverted (temporarily) back to Linux 6.1.0 and it's fine.
Tested a couple of times, the issue can be reproduced.
I don't know of the relationship between the kernel and web browser
and it seems odd the kernel would cause this problem, but there's no
disputing it is the cause as I can reproduce the issue.


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Chris McGimpsey-Jones
Freedom Publishers Union Co-Founder

Re: Latest RC causing web browser crash

[Linux kernel regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

[CCing the regression list, as it should be in the loop for regressions:
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.html]

Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker.

On 28.01.23 02:14, Chris McGimpsey-Jones wrote:
> Is anyone else with the latest RC having issues with Google Chrome
> browser, causing it to crash after a couple of minutes?

FWIW, this is unlikely to get any traction: nearly nobody reads the LKML
anymore, hence it's unlikely that someone that can help will see it.

> I reverted (temporarily) back to Linux 6.1.0 and it's fine.
> Tested a couple of times, the issue can be reproduced.

Are there any crash dumps that might indicate what might cause the problem?

> I don't know of the relationship between the kernel and web browser
> and it seems odd the kernel would cause this problem, but there's no
> disputing it is the cause as I can reproduce the issue.

Well, things like this don't happen frequently, but they do happen.
Without more data it's just very hard to get to the root of this issue,
as it could be caused by all sorts of things (mm and drm are two most
likely suspects, but it could be something totally different).

Could you try to bisect the issue? There are various pages on the net
that explain how to do that.

Anyway for the rest of this mail:

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Thanks for the report. To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression
tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced v6.1..v6.2-rc5
#regzbot title chrome crashes
#regzbot ignore-activity

This isn't a regression? This issue or a fix for it are already
discussed somewhere else? It was fixed already? You want to clarify when
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Re: Latest RC causing web browser crash

[Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

On 30.01.23 11:11, Linux kernel regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
wrote:
> On 28.01.23 02:14, Chris McGimpsey-Jones wrote:
>> Is anyone else with the latest RC having issues with Google Chrome
>> browser, causing it to crash after a couple of minutes?
> FWIW, this is unlikely to get any traction: nearly nobody reads the LKML
> anymore, hence it's unlikely that someone that can help will see it.

FWIW, I pointed to this problem in my weekly reports, but there was no
reaction. That sound like this is something rare which might only happen
on your machine.

Is the problem actually still occuring?

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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>> I reverted (temporarily) back to Linux 6.1.0 and it's fine.
>> Tested a couple of times, the issue can be reproduced.
> 
> Are there any crash dumps that might indicate what might cause the problem?
> 
>> I don't know of the relationship between the kernel and web browser
>> and it seems odd the kernel would cause this problem, but there's no
>> disputing it is the cause as I can reproduce the issue.
> 
> Well, things like this don't happen frequently, but they do happen.
> Without more data it's just very hard to get to the root of this issue,
> as it could be caused by all sorts of things (mm and drm are two most
> likely suspects, but it could be something totally different).
> 
> Could you try to bisect the issue? There are various pages on the net
> that explain how to do that.

Re: Latest RC causing web browser crash

[Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

On 16.02.23 12:10, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 30.01.23 11:11, Linux kernel regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
> wrote:
>> On 28.01.23 02:14, Chris McGimpsey-Jones wrote:
>>> Is anyone else with the latest RC having issues with Google Chrome
>>> browser, causing it to crash after a couple of minutes?
>> FWIW, this is unlikely to get any traction: nearly nobody reads the LKML
>> anymore, hence it's unlikely that someone that can help will see it.
> 
> FWIW, I pointed to this problem in my weekly reports, but there was no
> reaction. That sound like this is something rare which might only happen
> on your machine.
> 
> Is the problem actually still occuring?

Hmm, not reply. In that case I'm going to remove it from the tracking:

#regzbot inconclusive: reporter MIA and likely individual (local?) issue
anyway
#regzbot ignore-activity

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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