This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_ct_expect: Change __nf_ct_expect_check() return value. to the 4.9-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-nf_ct_expect-change-__nf_ct_expect_check-return-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017 From: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:08:54 -0800 Subject: netfilter: nf_ct_expect: Change __nf_ct_expect_check() return value. From: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4b86c459c7bee3acaf92f0e2b4c6ac803eaa1a58 ] Commit 4dee62b1b9b4 ("netfilter: nf_ct_expect: nf_ct_expect_insert() returns void") inadvertently changed the successful return value of nf_ct_expect_related_report() from 0 to 1 due to __nf_ct_expect_check() returning 1 on success. Prevent this regression in the future by changing the return value of __nf_ct_expect_check() to 0 on success. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static inline int __nf_ct_expect_check(s struct net *net = nf_ct_exp_net(expect); struct hlist_node *next; unsigned int h; - int ret = 1; + int ret = 0; if (!master_help) { ret = -ESHUTDOWN; @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ int nf_ct_expect_related_report(struct n spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_expect_lock); ret = __nf_ct_expect_check(expect); - if (ret <= 0) + if (ret < 0) goto out; ret = nf_ct_expect_insert(expect); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarno@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/netfilter-nf_ct_expect-change-__nf_ct_expect_check-return-value.patch