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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Testing stable backports for netfilter
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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.