Re: [PATCH net-next] rxrpc: Fix return from none_validate_challenge()

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On 5/27/25 5:01 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Fix the return value of none_validate_challenge() to be explicitly true
> (which indicates the source packet should simply be discarded) rather than
> implicitly true (because rxrpc_abort_conn() always returns -EPROTO which
> gets converted to true).
> 
> Note that this change doesn't change the behaviour of the code (which is
> correct by accident) and, in any case, we *shouldn't* get a CHALLENGE
> packet to an rxnull connection (ie. no security).
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> Closes: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2025-April/009738.html
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
> cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

net-next is closed for the merge window, but this is actually a fix for
code that is already in net (since Linus pulled and the trees are
forwarded).

We can apply it to net, no need to repost, but could you please provided
a suitable Fixes tag?

Thanks!

Paolo