It's no longer true that the kernel doesn't have unit/regression tests. The kernel ships with a thousand or so selftests nowadays, Linus actually requires selft

It's no longer true that the kernel doesn't have unit/regression tests. The kernel ships with a thousand or so selftests nowadays, Linus actually requires selftests for some patches, and there's also a unit testing framework (kunit). Regardless, from the commit message: > I didn't manage to come up with a reproducer in test environment, and the problem can't be reproduced after rebooting.