netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't permit unprivileged writes to global state via sysctls

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Message-Id: <20161020.143747.1033652491220298518.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:37:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pablo@...filter.org
Cc:     jann@...jh.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't permit unprivileged writes to global
 state via sysctls

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:22:24 +0200

> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 12:21:04AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
>> This prevents the modification of nf_conntrack_max in unprivileged network
>> namespaces. For unprivileged network namespaces, ip_conntrack_max is kept
>> as a readonly sysctl in order to minimize potential compatibility issues.
>> 
>> This patch should apply cleanly to the net tree.
> 
> For the record: This patch looks good to me, but this legacy
> ip_conntrack sysctl code is now gone.
> 
> I don't know what is the procedure to get this to -stable branches now
> that this cannot be pushed upstream.

In the commit message for the -stable submission simply say "Not
applicable" in the upstream commit reference.  Like:

	[ Upstream commit: Not applicable ]

or something like that.