Re: Patch "netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock only in the required scope" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Greg KH
2018-02-23T09:01:42Z

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:28:35AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 22:13 +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > netfilter: on sockopt() acquire sock lock only in the required scope
> >
> > to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > The filename of the patch is:
> > netfilter-on-sockopt-acquire-sock-lock-only-in-the-required-scope.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
> This has 2 required follow-up:
>
> commit dfec091439bb2acf763497cfc58f2bdfc67c56b7
> Author: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 15 16:59:49 2018 +0100
>
> dn_getsockoptdecnet: move nf_{get/set}sockopt outside sock lock

Now applied, thanks.

> and:
>
> commit 01ea306f2ac2baff98d472da719193e738759d93
> Author: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 8 12:19:00 2018 +0100
>
> netfilter: drop outermost socket lock in getsockopt()

This one isn't in Linus's tree yet. What tree is it in right now?

> I suggest to pull these 3 patches together. My bad: I was unable to
> provide a complete fix in a single shot.

Not a problem, many thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h