This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled llc: Don't drop packet from non-root netns. to the 4.19-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: llc-don-t-drop-packet-from-non-root-netns.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3be5e9a7e94dd56e5d1ec735d5f11d991fd11606 Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 18 10:41:51 2023 -0700 llc: Don't drop packet from non-root netns. [ Upstream commit 6631463b6e6673916d2481f692938f393148aa82 ] Now these upper layer protocol handlers can be called from llc_rcv() as sap->rcv_func(), which is registered by llc_sap_open(). * function which is passed to register_8022_client() -> no in-kernel user calls register_8022_client(). * snap_rcv() `- proto->rcvfunc() : registered by register_snap_client() -> aarp_rcv() and atalk_rcv() drop packets from non-root netns * stp_pdu_rcv() `- garp_protos[]->rcv() : registered by stp_proto_register() -> garp_pdu_rcv() and br_stp_rcv() are netns-aware So, we can safely remove the netns restriction in llc_rcv(). Fixes: e730c15519d0 ("[NET]: Make packet reception network namespace safe") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/llc/llc_input.c b/net/llc/llc_input.c index 82cb93f66b9bd..f9e801cc50f5e 100644 --- a/net/llc/llc_input.c +++ b/net/llc/llc_input.c @@ -162,9 +162,6 @@ int llc_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, void (*sta_handler)(struct sk_buff *skb); void (*sap_handler)(struct llc_sap *sap, struct sk_buff *skb); - if (!net_eq(dev_net(dev), &init_net)) - goto drop; - /* * When the interface is in promisc. mode, drop all the crap that it * receives, do not try to analyse it.