Dan Moulding <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello netfilter folks, > > Since v6.16-rc7 I've been hitting a vexing system hang (no kernel > panic is being produced that I can see). I did not have this problem > when running rc6. I first noticed it the morning after upgrading to > rc7. I found the machine unresponsive. Checking logs after restarting > it, I could see it had been in the middle of being backed up by an > rsync-based backup system. This same sequence repeated the following > day. Bah. Can't see the problem. Can you partial-revert and see what happens? E.g. only revert the changes to net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c and keep nf_ct_resolve_clash_harder(). Is this x86?