Re: Backport RXRPC for 6.1.y from 6.2

[Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>]

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On 5/10/2026 12:36 PM, 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.
>
>> 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...
>
> BRs
> Wentao Guan

Wentao,

Are you associated with a Linux distribution which ships 6.1.y stable?

Or are you building the kernel for local use?

Greg,

I believe Debian Bookworm ships 6.1.y kernels with RXRPC compiled and 
packaged.

Jeffrey Altman


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