Re: [PATCH v3 net] sctp: avoid livelock while updating retransmit path
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 20:52:29 EST
Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:50:17 +0800 you wrote:
> sctp_assoc_update_retran_path() can loop forever when every remaining
> transport, including retran_path, is SCTP_UNCONFIRMED: the state check
> runs before the wraparound test, so the loop cannot observe that it has
> completed a full pass.
>
> Fix this by considering a transport only when it is not UNCONFIRMED,
> then checking whether the walk has returned to retran_path. This makes
> the full-pass termination independent of the transport state while
> preserving the existing fallback selection semantics.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [v3,net] sctp: avoid livelock while updating retransmit path
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/d2c31b837406
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