This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_nat_snmp: Fix panic when snmp_trap_helper fails to register to the 3.18-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_nat_snmp-fix-panic-when-snmp_trap_helper-fails-to-register.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Dec 21 10:55:04 CET 2017 From: Gao Feng <fgao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:24:36 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nf_nat_snmp: Fix panic when snmp_trap_helper fails to register From: Gao Feng <fgao@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 75c689dca98851d65ef5a27e5ce26b625b68751c ] In the commit 93557f53e1fb ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack snmp helper"), the snmp_helper is replaced by nf_nat_snmp_hook. So the snmp_helper is never registered. But it still tries to unregister the snmp_helper, it could cause the panic. Now remove the useless snmp_helper and the unregister call in the error handler. Fixes: 93557f53e1fb ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack snmp helper") Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c | 19 +------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c @@ -1260,16 +1260,6 @@ static const struct nf_conntrack_expect_ .timeout = 180, }; -static struct nf_conntrack_helper snmp_helper __read_mostly = { - .me = THIS_MODULE, - .help = help, - .expect_policy = &snmp_exp_policy, - .name = "snmp", - .tuple.src.l3num = AF_INET, - .tuple.src.u.udp.port = cpu_to_be16(SNMP_PORT), - .tuple.dst.protonum = IPPROTO_UDP, -}; - static struct nf_conntrack_helper snmp_trap_helper __read_mostly = { .me = THIS_MODULE, .help = help, @@ -1288,17 +1278,10 @@ static struct nf_conntrack_helper snmp_t static int __init nf_nat_snmp_basic_init(void) { - int ret = 0; - BUG_ON(nf_nat_snmp_hook != NULL); RCU_INIT_POINTER(nf_nat_snmp_hook, help); - ret = nf_conntrack_helper_register(&snmp_trap_helper); - if (ret < 0) { - nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(&snmp_helper); - return ret; - } - return ret; + return nf_conntrack_helper_register(&snmp_trap_helper); } static void __exit nf_nat_snmp_basic_fini(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fgao@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/netfilter-nf_nat_snmp-fix-panic-when-snmp_trap_helper-fails-to-register.patch