netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of verdicts after NF

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:39:34 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@...mai.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of verdicts after NF_QUEUE

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 01:30:08PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I'd appreciate if you can take this patch into 4.9-stable. There is no
> similar patch in tree, so this is not a backport.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Debabrata Banerjee wrote:
> > A verdict of NF_STOLEN after NF_QUEUE will cause an incorrect return value
> > and a potential kernel panic via double free of skb's
> > 
> > This was broken by commit 7034b566a4e7 ("netfilter: fix nf_queue handling")
> > and subsequently fixed in v4.10 by commit c63cbc460419 ("netfilter:
> > use switch() to handle verdict cases from nf_hook_slow()"). However that
> > commit cannot be cleanly cherry-picked to v4.9
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@...mai.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> 
> Thanks a lot!

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h