From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] Revert "netfilter: nft_byteorder: remove multi-register support"
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 07:48:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avHBBj7mqIlk4vdm@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <avG95PtnRweYD0KJ@chamomile>
On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 01:34:44PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 01:25:08PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 03:22:54PM +0300, Abdifatah Suruur wrote:
>> > This reverts commit 3c5fb3a6c8118d15e60295e76fb5b879021eef43.
>> >
>> > The upstream change removes multi-register byteorder support and is
>> > tagged stable+noautosel because nftables versions before 1.1.0 can
>> > generate length/size combinations that the removal rejects. Backporting
>> > it to stable can make existing rulesets fail to load.
>>
>> Yes, so why are you posting this as is?
>
>Apologies, I got this all wrong.
>
>I thought you wanted to pull in "netfilter: nft_byteorder: remove
> multi-register support" but this already slipped through -stable?
We were asked[1] to backport it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ataIP3xm8DDtO82v@strlen.de/
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 12:22 [PATCH 6.12.y 0/2] nft_byteorder: fix the uninitialised-stack read without removing multi-register support Abdifatah Suruur
2026-11-09 12:22 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] Revert "netfilter: nft_byteorder: remove multi-register support" Abdifatah Suruur
2026-11-09 12:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-09 12:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-11-09 12:48 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-11-09 13:18 ` Abdifatah Suruur
2026-11-09 12:22 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] netfilter: nft_byteorder: initialise the marked destination span Abdifatah Suruur
2026-11-09 12:27 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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