diff --git a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/pedantic.clj b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/pedantic.clj
index b75081efa..0d1304651 100644
--- a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/pedantic.clj
+++ b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/pedantic.clj
@@ -119,10 +119,11 @@
     (if (empty? paths)
       results
       (recur (for [{:keys [node parents]} paths
-                   :when (not (some #{node} parents))
+                   ;; hashing is broken for dependency nodes in aether so we
+                   ;; have to do cycle detection based on strings instead
+                   :when (not (some #{(str node)} (map str parents)))
                    c (.getChildren node)]
-               {:node c
-                :parents (conj parents node)})
+               {:node c :parents (conj parents node)})
              (doall (concat results paths))))))
 
 (defn- transform-graph
diff --git a/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/pedantic.clj b/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/pedantic.clj
index 8f520f1bf..732a6240a 100644
--- a/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/pedantic.clj
+++ b/leiningen-core/test/leiningen/core/test/pedantic.clj
@@ -169,3 +169,13 @@
             :ranges [{:node [a "2"]
                       :parents [[range "2"]]}]}])))
 
+(deftest netty-boringssl-works
+  (let [project {:root "/tmp"
+                 :dependencies '[[io.netty/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static
+                                  "2.0.50.Final"]]
+                 :pedantic? :warn
+                 :repositories [["c" {:url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/"
+                                      :snapshots false}]]}]
+    ;; this will result in an infinite loop in lein 2.9.8
+    (is (leiningen.core.classpath/get-classpath project))))
+