Re: [PATCH 6.12 162/265] selftests: mptcp: join: check removing signal+subflow endp

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13T16:02:52Z

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 10:54:07AM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 12/03/2026 21:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
> >
> > commit 1777f349ff41b62dfe27454b69c27b0bc99ffca5 upstream.
> >
> > This validates the previous commit: endpoints with both the signal and
> > subflow flags should always be marked as used even if it was not
> > possible to create new subflows due to the MPTCP PM limits.
>
> FYI, this patch adds a new subtest in the MPTCP selftests to validate
> that the upstream parent commit -- 579a752464a6 ("mptcp: pm: in-kernel:
> always mark signal+subflow endp as used") -- fixes a warning. Except
> that this commit had a conflict and is currently not in v6.12. Sasha
> sent a version without the conflict (BTW, thank you for that!):
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/20260309153846.1288656-1-sashal@kernel.org
>
> I guess that's probably fine like that because the issue exposed by this
> new test is not new, and it will be fixed by the missing patch soon I
> suppose. Probably no need to modify this RC, and the fix can wait the
> next version, but I prefer to send this message just in case people hit
> the issue.

Thanks for the info, I'll queue up that other patch for the next round
of stable releases, sorry I didn't get to it at this point in time.

greg k-h