[PATCH net v4 8/9] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:03:04 +0100 David Howells wrote:
> Currently, when a CHALLENGE packet comes in, it's queued in an OOB queue on
> the AF_RXRPC socket that generated one of the calls on that connection for
> the application (which might be in userspace) to service.  The application
> then picks up the CHALLENGE and requests a RESPONSE packet be generated,
> allowing the app to include app-specific data in it if appropriate.  There
> is, however, no actual limit on the capacity of the CHALLENGE queue, and
> this could be abused remotely - and also getting the OOB mechanism right
> has proven tricky.

net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c:383:37: warning: implicit conversion from 'int' to 'enum rxrpc_abort_reason' changes value from 128 to -128 [-Wconstant-conversion]
  383 |                 trace_rxrpc_abort(call->debug_id, rxrpc_sendmsg_late_send,
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sashiko has some comments too (Claude Sashiko didn't run since the code
didn't build cleanly).
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