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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	security@kernel.org, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] netfilter: nft_byteorder leaks uninitialised kernel stack on 6.12.y with CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE (CWE-457)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:58:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026101922-cherisher-grout-bd7c@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <179239012164.14465.16534329674629579851@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 09:08:41AM +0300, Abdifatah Suruur wrote:
> Hi Florian, stable,
> 
> Thanks for the explanation and the Ack.  The explicit memset patch is
> attached with your Acked-by; it applies cleanly to 6.12.113.
> 
> Stable maintainers: would you prefer this minimal init patch or a backport
> of bb061d3de4170741?  Either works from my side.  The memset preserves the
> existing multi-register ABI and is the smaller change; Florian is fine with
> either.

A full backport is always preferred for lots of reasons (long term
maintenance and proper tracking is the primary one.)

Please submit that and we will be glad to queue it up.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <179235055956.10524.6485282696272965887@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <atU2brRgmeb6ght2@1wt.eu>
2026-10-18 22:17   ` [SECURITY] netfilter: nft_byteorder leaks uninitialised kernel stack on 6.12.y with CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE (CWE-457) Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-19  5:48     ` Florian Westphal
2026-10-19  6:08       ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-19  6:58         ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-10-19  8:50         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-10-21 12:47           ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-23 12:57             ` Greg KH
2026-10-23 14:20               ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-22  4:07           ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-19 20:55         ` Sasha Levin
2026-10-19 21:14           ` Florian Westphal
2026-10-21 12:47           ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-10-22  2:03         ` Sasha Levin

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