netdev - Re: removing conntrack helper toggle to enable auto-assignment [was Re: b118509076b3 (probably) breaks my firewall]

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Message-ID: <d6d6b208-aec0-a4c3-8350-dbe2f474e7c0@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:01:47 +0200
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To:     Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: removing conntrack helper toggle to enable auto-assignment [was
 Re: b118509076b3 (probably) breaks my firewall]

Chris, thx for CCing the regression list, I've been watching this thread.

On 20.09.22 08:49, Chris Clayton wrote:
>
> So I guess I'm an unusual case in that I don't rely on distro maintainers to fix up stuff like this on the rare
> occasions it comes along. On reflection, I'd say leave it be

Okay. With a bit of luck only very few users are affected by this; if
not we might need to revisit this.

> - as I said earlier, it just seemed rather late in the 6.0
> development cycle for this to pop up.

With security fixes that can happen, as delaying the fix might the
inferior of two choices. :-/

Ciao, Thorsten