This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID to the 5.15-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-ctnetlink-use-helper-function-to-calculate.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e78403238b9e487ec245733fe1fdbe930c9e5762 Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jul 13 16:47:38 2024 +0200 netfilter: ctnetlink: use helper function to calculate expect ID [ Upstream commit 782161895eb4ac45cf7cfa8db375bd4766cb8299 ] Delete expectation path is missing a call to the nf_expect_get_id() helper function to calculate the expectation ID, otherwise LSB of the expectation object address is leaked to userspace. Fixes: 3c79107631db ("netfilter: ctnetlink: don't use conntrack/expect object addresses as id") Reported-by: zdi-disclosures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index 1466015bc56dc..b429ffde25b1a 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -3426,7 +3426,8 @@ static int ctnetlink_del_expect(struct sk_buff *skb, if (cda[CTA_EXPECT_ID]) { __be32 id = nla_get_be32(cda[CTA_EXPECT_ID]); - if (ntohl(id) != (u32)(unsigned long)exp) { + + if (id != nf_expect_get_id(exp)) { nf_ct_expect_put(exp); return -ENOENT; }