netdev - Re: Stable Backport: net: Avoid address overwrite in kernel

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Message-ID: <7702c74e-482f-cd89-1d12-fb6869bd53f2@iogearbox.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:26:31 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Jordan Rife <jrife@...gle.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Stable Backport: net: Avoid address overwrite in kernel_connect

[ Adding Greg to Cc ]

On 8/31/23 8:47 PM, Jordan Rife wrote:
> Upstream Commit ID: 0bdf399342c5acbd817c9098b6c7ed21f1974312
> Patchwork Link:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=0bdf399342c5
> Requested Kernel Versions: 4.19, 5.4, 5.10, 5.15, 6.1, 6.4, 6.5
> 
> This patch addresses an incompatibility between eBPF connect4/connect6
> programs and kernel space clients such as NFS. At present, the issue
> this patch fixes is a blocker for users that want to combine NFS with
> Cilium. The fix has been applied upstream but the same bug exists with
> older kernels.
> 
> -Jordan
>