From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] wifi: cfg80211: stop radar detection in cfg80211_leave()
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 17:49:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTSy6CoUlKZy_GSs@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e883efe1f9e4bccb144400b82a35110c79451b37.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 03:55:37PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>On Sat, 2025-12-06 at 09:02 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>
>> ### Conclusion
>>
>> This commit fixes a legitimate bug but does **not** meet stable kernel
>> criteria:
>> - The maintainer did not request stable backporting
>> - The affected code only exists in kernel 6.12+, making it only relevant
>> to the most recent stable branch if any
>> - The bug severity (warnings, not crashes/corruption/security) does not
>> warrant the backporting effort
>> - It cannot be cleanly applied to most stable trees due to structural
>> code differences
>>
>> **NO**
>
>:)
>
>To be fair, it's kind of a corner case that happened mostly during tests
>as far as I know, when two mesh peers getting radar detection happen to
>pick two incompatible channels and then give up, causing wpa_s to bring
>down the interface.
>
>The thing that makes this interesting is that they both detect radar at
>*precisely* the same time because they're actually simulated on a single
>Linux system, and our regulatory code tells each and every radio if any
>of them detects radar.
>
>Anyway, either way is reasonable, it's probably a much older issue than
>6.12 (then we just shuffled things around due to MLO), but the issue
>would've been around before that, and nobody really seems to have
>noticed outside this specific test.
Commits still get a review after the LLM response, which something is (IMO)
wrong :)
I'll keep it in, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-06 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-06 14:02 [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.1] ksmbd: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_tree_connect_put under concurrency Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] fs/ntfs3: check for shutdown in fsync Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.1] smb/server: fix return value of smb2_ioctl() Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.1] gfs2: Fix use of bio_chain Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] Bluetooth: btusb: Add new VID/PID 13d3/3533 for RTL8821CE Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] Bluetooth: btusb: Add new VID/PID 0x0489/0xE12F for RTL8852BE-VT Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] btrfs: scrub: always update btrfs_scrub_progress::last_physical Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix HT40 channel config for RTL8192CU, RTL8723AU Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] Bluetooth: btusb: MT7920: Add VID/PID 0489/e135 Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] Bluetooth: btusb: MT7922: Add VID/PID 0489/e170 Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] wifi: cfg80211: use cfg80211_leave() in iftype change Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.1] kbuild: Use objtree for module signing key path Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.1] wifi: brcmfmac: Add DMI nvram filename quirk for Acer A1 840 tablet Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] hfsplus: Verify inode mode when loading from disk Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.6] gfs2: fix remote evict for read-only filesystems Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.17] Bluetooth: btusb: add new custom firmwares Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] hfsplus: fix volume corruption issue for generic/101 Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] hfsplus: fix missing hfs_bnode_get() in __hfs_bnode_create Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] hfsplus: fix volume corruption issue for generic/070 Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.15] fs/ntfs3: Support timestamps prior to epoch Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.6] Bluetooth: btusb: Add new VID/PID 2b89/6275 for RTL8761BUV Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.6] ntfs: set dummy blocksize to read boot_block when mounting Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] hfsplus: fix volume corruption issue for generic/073 Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] wifi: mt76: mt792x: fix wifi init fail by setting MCU_RUNNING after CLC load Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] gfs2: Fix "gfs2: Switch to wait_event in gfs2_quotad" Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.12] wifi: cfg80211: stop radar detection in cfg80211_leave() Sasha Levin
2025-12-06 14:55 ` Johannes Berg
2025-12-06 22:49 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2025-12-06 14:02 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-6.6] ksmbd: vfs: fix race on m_flags in vfs_cache Sasha Levin
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