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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Testing stable backports for netfilter
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:59:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zmd3XaiC_GiCakyf@calendula> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <652cad2e-2857-4374-a597-a3337f9330f0@oracle.com>

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:51:53PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Hello netfilter developers,
> 
> Do we have any tests that we could run before sending a stable backport in
> netfilter/ subsystem to stable@vger ?
> 
> Let us say we have a CVE fix which is only backported till 5.10.y but it is
> needed is 5.4.y and 4.19.y, the backport might need to easy to make, just
> fixing some conflicts due to contextual changes or missing commits.

Which one in particular is missing?

> One question that comes in my mind is did I test that particular code, often
> testing that particular code is tough unless the reproducer is public. So I
> thought it would be good to learn about any netfilter test suite(set of
> tests) to run before sending a backport to stable kernel which might ensure
> we don't introduce regressions.

There is tests/shell under the nftables userspace tree, it also
detected the features that are available in your kernel.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-10 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-10 18:21 Testing stable backports for netfilter Harshit Mogalapalli
2024-06-10 21:59 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2024-06-11  5:58   ` Harshit Mogalapalli
2024-06-11  8:41     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-06-11  8:59       ` Vegard Nossum
2024-06-11  9:00       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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