6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Paolo Abeni [ Upstream commit 9aa59323f2709370cb4f01acbba599a9167f317b ] Usage of the skb deferral API is straight-forward; with multiple subflows actives this allow moving part of the received application load into multiple CPUs. Also fix a typo in the related comment. Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang Tested-by: Geliang Tang Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250927-net-next-mptcp-rcv-path-imp-v1-1-5da266aa9c1a@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 5dd8025a49c2 ("mptcp: fix soft lockup in mptcp_recvmsg()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index 5e094c72dcbb7..894fbda97f45f 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -2020,12 +2020,13 @@ static int __mptcp_recvmsg_mskq(struct sock *sk, break; } - /* avoid the indirect call, we know the destructor is sock_wfree */ + /* avoid the indirect call, we know the destructor is sock_rfree */ skb->destructor = NULL; + skb->sk = NULL; atomic_sub(skb->truesize, &sk->sk_rmem_alloc); sk_mem_uncharge(sk, skb->truesize); __skb_unlink(skb, &sk->sk_receive_queue); - __kfree_skb(skb); + skb_attempt_defer_free(skb); } if (copied >= len) -- 2.53.0