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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Fri Oct 31 2025 - 03:44:50 EST


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.

thanks,

greg k-h