This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "SUNRPC: Fail faster on bad verifier" to the 6.5-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: revert-sunrpc-fail-faster-on-bad-verifier.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e86fcf0820d914389b46658a5a7e8969c3af2d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 21:03:28 -0400 Subject: Revert "SUNRPC: Fail faster on bad verifier" From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e86fcf0820d914389b46658a5a7e8969c3af2d53 upstream. This reverts commit 0701214cd6e66585a999b132eb72ae0489beb724. The premise of this commit was incorrect. There are exactly 2 cases where rpcauth_checkverf() will return an error: 1) If there was an XDR decode problem (i.e. garbage data). 2) If gss_validate() had a problem verifying the RPCSEC_GSS MIC. In the second case, there are again 2 subcases: a) The GSS context expires, in which case gss_validate() will force a new context negotiation on retry by invalidating the cred. b) The sequence number check failed because an RPC call timed out, and the client retransmitted the request using a new sequence number, as required by RFC2203. In neither subcase is this a fatal error. Reported-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 0701214cd6e6 ("SUNRPC: Fail faster on bad verifier") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ out_unparsable: out_verifier: trace_rpc_bad_verifier(task); - goto out_err; + goto out_garbage; out_msg_denied: error = -EACCES; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.5/revert-sunrpc-fail-faster-on-bad-verifier.patch