Re: [PATCH] ksmbd: server: avoid busy polling in accept loop

[Qingfang Deng]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 03:32:06PM +0800, Qingfang Deng wrote:
> > Hi Namjae,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Fixes: 0626e6641f6b ("cifsd: add server handler for central processing and tranport layers")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Applied it to #ksmbd-for-next-next.
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > I just found that this depends on another commit which is not in
> > kernel versions earlier than v6.1:
> > a7c01fa93aeb ("signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()")
> >
> > With the current Fixes tag, this commit will be backported to v5.15
> > automatically. But without said commit, kthread_stop() cannot wake up
> > a blocking kernel_accept().
> > Should I change the Fixes tag, or inform linux-stable not to backport
> > this patch to v5.15?
>
> Email stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when it lands in Linus's tree to not
> backport it that far.

Noted. Thanks!