Patch "rxrpc: Fix potential infinite loop in rxrpc_recvmsg()" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jul 20 03:53:39 PDT 2026


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rxrpc: Fix potential infinite loop in rxrpc_recvmsg()

to the 6.18-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:
     rxrpc-fix-potential-infinite-loop-in-rxrpc_recvmsg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 67a0332f442ef07713cd2d9c13d59db0f1c23648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:38:15 +0100
Subject: rxrpc: Fix potential infinite loop in rxrpc_recvmsg()

From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

commit 67a0332f442ef07713cd2d9c13d59db0f1c23648 upstream.

Fix the wait in rxrpc_recvmsg() also take check the oob queue.

Fixes: 5800b1cf3fd8 ("rxrpc: Allow CHALLENGEs to the passed to the app for a RESPONSE")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260616155749.2125907-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624163819.3017002-9-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c
@@ -436,7 +436,8 @@ try_again:
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
-	if (list_empty(&rx->recvmsg_q)) {
+	if (list_empty(&rx->recvmsg_q) &&
+	    skb_queue_empty_lockless(&rx->recvmsg_oobq)) {
 		ret = -EWOULDBLOCK;
 		if (timeo == 0) {
 			call = NULL;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells at redhat.com are

queue-6.18/rxrpc-don-t-move-a-peeked-oob-message-onto-the-pending-queue.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-potential-infinite-loop-in-rxrpc_recvmsg.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-rxrpc_verify_data-ensure-rx_dec_buffer-alloc.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-further-netns-teardown-to-cancel-the-preallocation-charger.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-netns-teardown-to-cancel-the-preallocation-charger.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-ackall-packet-handling.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-leak-of-connection-from-oob-challenge.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-oob-challenge-leak-in-cleanup-after-notification-failure.patch
queue-6.18/afs-handle-cb.initcallbackstate3-requests-without-a-server-record.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-socket-notification-race.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_rotate_tx_rotate-to-check-there-s-something-to-rotate.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-leak-of-released-call-in-recvmsg-msg_peek.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-serialize-kernel-accept-preallocation-with-socket-teardown.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-afs_get_tree.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-the-reception-of-a-reply-packet-before-data-transmission.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-double-unlock-in-rxrpc_recvmsg.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-uncancelled-rxrpc-oob-message-handler.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-uaf-in-rxgk_issue_challenge.patch



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