This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mptcp: more accurate NL event generation to the 6.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mptcp-more-accurate-nl-event-generation.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 21d9b73a7d5241905367098d260a3c68b811da32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:34:56 -0700 Subject: mptcp: more accurate NL event generation From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 21d9b73a7d5241905367098d260a3c68b811da32 upstream. Currently the mptcp code generate a "new listener" event even if the actual listen() syscall fails. Address the issue moving the event generation call under the successful branch. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: f8c9dfbd875b ("mptcp: add pm listener events") Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230725-send-net-20230725-v1-2-6f60fe7137a9@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -3717,10 +3717,9 @@ static int mptcp_listen(struct socket *s if (!err) { sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), sk->sk_prot, 1); mptcp_copy_inaddrs(sk, ssock->sk); + mptcp_event_pm_listener(ssock->sk, MPTCP_EVENT_LISTENER_CREATED); } - mptcp_event_pm_listener(ssock->sk, MPTCP_EVENT_LISTENER_CREATED); - unlock: release_sock(sk); return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.4/octeontx2-af-fix-hash-extraction-enable-configuratio.patch queue-6.4/team-reset-team-s-flags-when-down-link-is-p2p-device.patch queue-6.4/vxlan-fix-gro-with-vxlan-gpe.patch queue-6.4/net-stmmac-apply-redundant-write-work-around-on-4.xx.patch queue-6.4/selftests-mptcp-join-only-check-for-ip6tables-if-needed.patch queue-6.4/tipc-stop-tipc-crypto-on-failure-in-tipc_node_create.patch queue-6.4/mptcp-more-accurate-nl-event-generation.patch queue-6.4/bonding-reset-bond-s-flags-when-down-link-is-p2p-dev.patch queue-6.4/benet-fix-return-value-check-in-be_lancer_xmit_worka.patch queue-6.4/tipc-check-return-value-of-pskb_trim.patch