Re: [PATCH linux-5.9 1/1] net: netfilter: fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in nft_flow_rule_create

Greg KH
2020-10-27T06:49:34Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:42:26AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> [ Trimming CC ]
>
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:31:57PM -0700, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote:
> > > Adding stable.
> >
> > What did that do?
>
> Its a request to pick up
>
> commit 31cc578ae2de19c748af06d859019dced68e325d
> Author: Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 20 13:41:36 2020 +0200
>
> netfilter: nftables_offload: KASAN slab-out-of-bounds Read in nft_flow_rule_create
>
> Which lacks a Fixes tag. Should have been:
>
> Fixes: c9626a2cbdb20e2 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support")
> (v5.3+)
>
> Hope that makes things clearer.

That makes it much more obvious and clearer, thank you. Saeed, please
be more explicit in the future.

thanks,

greg k-h