Re: any remaining for-6.0 issues?

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:38:05 +0100
Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19/04/2021 18:02, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> 
> >> That patch seems to be our best candidate so far, but the intermittent
> >> nature of the failures make it hard to pin down... I don't see anything
> >> obviously wrong with the patch, maybe some linux-user experts have a
> >> better idea?  
> > 
> > FWIW, I tried reproducing the issue on some local systems (no luck),
> > and on code pushed out to gitlab (where it works most of the time, and
> > the user builds where it fails are unpredictable.)
> > 
> > I fear the best we can do right now is stare at the code and try to
> > figure out what might be wrong :(  
> 
> Is there any particular reason why the unsigned long cast was removed from 
> the front? 
> Could that have an effect?

Indeed, that looks strange.

Will give it a try with the cast readded, but I'm still unable to
reproduce the error reliably...