FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: thunderbolt: Mark the connection down when bringing it" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 3c8b26ebf525ba5960510f48c6e9936a79ebe76f
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026090358-language-antitrust-4e97@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 3c8b26ebf525ba5960510f48c6e9936a79ebe76f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fan Ye <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:20:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: thunderbolt: Mark the connection down when bringing it
up fails

Every failure path in tbnet_connected_work() undoes its own work and returns without clearing login_sent, so the connection still looks established. The next tbnet_tear_down() therefore takes its main branch and repeats a teardown that already happened: it stops rings that are already stopped, which is a dev_WARN() and fatal under panic_on_warn, and it releases net->remote_transmit_path even on the HopID mismatch path, where this connection never owned that id, silently freeing one that someone else is still using.

Clear login_sent on those paths. That is enough for tbnet_tear_down() to leave the unwound state alone, and login_received has to stay set: it records that the peer has logged in and carries the transmit path it gave us, which nothing on this side can make the peer send again. Two things change beyond keeping the teardown out of the way: the logout request in that block is no longer sent, and the peer's next login request now re-queues our login work rather than connected_work, giving the connection a fresh login instead of a retry on stale state.

index e5199a87ea7a..2a1728621887 100644
@@ -626,6 +626,14 @@ static int tbnet_alloc_tx_buffers(struct tbnet *net)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void tbnet_connect_failed(struct tbnet *net)
+{
+	/* Leave login_received set: only the peer can make it true again. */
+	mutex_lock(&net->connection_lock);
+	net->login_sent = false;
+	mutex_unlock(&net->connection_lock);
+}
+
 static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct tbnet *net = container_of(work, typeof(*net), connected_work);

@@ -649,6 +657,7 @@ static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		netdev_err(net->dev, "failed to allocate Rx HopID\n");
 		if (ret >= 0)
 			tb_xdomain_release_in_hopid(net->xd, ret);
+		tbnet_connect_failed(net);
 		return;
 	}
 

@@ -693,6 +702,7 @@ static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	tb_ring_stop(net->rx_ring.ring);
 	tb_ring_stop(net->tx_ring.ring);
 	tb_xdomain_release_in_hopid(net->xd, net->remote_transmit_path);
+	tbnet_connect_failed(net);
 }
 
 static void tbnet_login_work(struct work_struct *work)

From: Fan Ye <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2f1463554d0561a2fead81e3888604e5c1125e29 ]

tb_xdomain_alloc_in_hopid() passes the wanted HopID to ida_alloc_range() as the lower bound, so a taken id is not an error there: the allocator returns the next free one above it. tbnet_connected_work() asks for the peer's transmit path, treats any other id as a failure and returns without releasing what it got, so that allocation stays live for the rest of the XDomain connection with nothing left holding a reference to it.

Release the id when it is not the one we asked for, the same way the error unwind at the end of the function releases the expected one.

Stable-dep-of: 3c8b26ebf525 ("net: thunderbolt: Mark the connection down when bringing it up fails")

---
 drivers/net/thunderbolt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

index 7a448a6bd3374..f329e1d407eb2 100644
@@ -625,6 +625,8 @@ static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	ret = tb_xdomain_alloc_in_hopid(net->xd, net->remote_transmit_path);
 	if (ret != net->remote_transmit_path) {
 		netdev_err(net->dev, "failed to allocate Rx HopID\n");
+		if (ret >= 0)
+			tb_xdomain_release_in_hopid(net->xd, ret);
 		return;
 	}
 

2.53.0

From: Fan Ye <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3c8b26ebf525ba5960510f48c6e9936a79ebe76f ]

Every failure path in tbnet_connected_work() undoes its own work and returns without clearing login_sent, so the connection still looks established. The next tbnet_tear_down() therefore takes its main branch and repeats a teardown that already happened: it stops rings that are already stopped, which is a dev_WARN() and fatal under panic_on_warn, and it releases net->remote_transmit_path even on the HopID mismatch path, where this connection never owned that id, silently freeing one that someone else is still using.

Clear login_sent on those paths. That is enough for tbnet_tear_down() to leave the unwound state alone, and login_received has to stay set: it records that the peer has logged in and carries the transmit path it gave us, which nothing on this side can make the peer send again. Two things change beyond keeping the teardown out of the way: the logout request in that block is no longer sent, and the peer's next login request now re-queues our login work rather than connected_work, giving the connection a fresh login instead of a retry on stale state.

---
 drivers/net/thunderbolt.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

index f329e1d407eb2..badf419d8031b 100644
@@ -606,6 +606,14 @@ static int tbnet_alloc_tx_buffers(struct tbnet *net)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void tbnet_connect_failed(struct tbnet *net)
+{
+	/* Leave login_received set: only the peer can make it true again. */
+	mutex_lock(&net->connection_lock);
+	net->login_sent = false;
+	mutex_unlock(&net->connection_lock);
+}
+
 static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct tbnet *net = container_of(work, typeof(*net), connected_work);

@@ -627,6 +635,7 @@ static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		netdev_err(net->dev, "failed to allocate Rx HopID\n");
 		if (ret >= 0)
 			tb_xdomain_release_in_hopid(net->xd, ret);
+		tbnet_connect_failed(net);
 		return;
 	}
 

@@ -669,6 +678,7 @@ static void tbnet_connected_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	tb_ring_stop(net->rx_ring.ring);
 	tb_ring_stop(net->tx_ring.ring);
 	tb_xdomain_release_in_hopid(net->xd, net->remote_transmit_path);
+	tbnet_connect_failed(net);
 }
 
 static void tbnet_login_work(struct work_struct *work)

2.53.0