Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't permit unprivileged writes to global state via sysctls

From: Jann Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:23:42 +0200

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:37:47PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:22:24 +0200
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 12:21:04AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> >> This prevents the modification of nf_conntrack_max in unprivileged network
> >> namespaces. For unprivileged network namespaces, ip_conntrack_max is kept
> >> as a readonly sysctl in order to minimize potential compatibility issues.
> >> 
> >> This patch should apply cleanly to the net tree.
> > 
> > For the record: This patch looks good to me, but this legacy
> > ip_conntrack sysctl code is now gone.
> > 
> > I don't know what is the procedure to get this to -stable branches now
> > that this cannot be pushed upstream.
> 
> In the commit message for the -stable submission simply say "Not
> applicable" in the upstream commit reference.  Like:
> 
> 	[ Upstream commit: Not applicable ]
> 
> or something like that.

Who should do that? Me, after getting a maintainer ack? Or the maintainer?