Backport RXRPC for 6.1.y from 6.2

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun May 10 09:43:23 PDT 2026


On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 12:36:36AM +0800, Wentao Guan wrote:
> > Why is this needed?  If you want this, please provide a working set of
> > patches properly submitted, along with the reasoning why you just don't
> > move to a newer kernel version.  And do you really use the AFS
> > filesystem in a 6.1.y kernel tree?  If so, why?
> 
> FYI, there are bugfixes such as ("rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets")
> affect the 6.1.y kernel, and the final goal is clean apply fixes for CVE-2026-43500 such as
> ("rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present") in maillist.

That was not stated here at all, so we had no context :(

If you need/want those bugfixes, great!  Provide a patch series of them
and we will be glad to review them.

> > move to a newer kernel version.  And do you really use the AFS
> > filesystem in a 6.1.y kernel tree?  If so, why?
> NO, just affected by compiled kernel which enabled the config:(,
> we are preparing fix such as disable AFS and AF_RXRPC or fix it...

Great, if you don't need this, disable it and then you don't need the
backports either :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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