Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mptcp: fix more tx path fields initialization" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

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Hi Greg,

On 19/02/2024 17:05, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.

(...)

> From 3f83d8a77eeeb47011b990fd766a421ee64f1d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 19:03:51 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] mptcp: fix more tx path fields initialization
> 
> The 'msk->write_seq' and 'msk->snd_nxt' are always updated under
> the msk socket lock, except at MPC handshake completiont time.
> 
> Builds-up on the previous commit to move such init under the relevant
> lock.
> 
> There are no known problems caused by the potential race, the
> primary goal is consistency.

FYI, because of the various conflicts, and because "there are no known
problems caused by the potential race", with Paolo, we think it is best
not to backport this patch to v6.1 and older.

Cheers,
Matt
-- 
Sponsored by the NGI0 Core fund.




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