Bug#1059420: linux-image-6.5.0-5-amd64: Sync or umount of USB task reproducibly hangs

[Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com>]

On 2023-12-28 01:34, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi Alison,
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:29:01PM -0800, Alison Chaiken wrote:
> > Package: src:linux
> > Version: 6.5.13-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > With two different USB sticks, "umount" and "sync" reproducibly 
> > trigger a
> > hung
> > task.  The USB sticks are of different brands, and one is new.   The 
> > first
> > attempt produced the warning that is pasted just below.   Long story 
> > short,
> > I
> > believe that this system cannot burn a USB stick.   I cannot kill the
> > currently
> > running sync process and will have to again reboot.
>
> And this is a regression from a previous kernel? I.e. from which one?
> 6.5.y series won't be updted anymore and we have 6.6.8-1 in unstable.
> Is the problem reproducible there?
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore

The problem is not recurring in linux-image-6.6.8-amd64.

Thanks,
Alison Chaiken

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