This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_ct_expect: remove the redundant slash when policy name is empty 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_ct_expect-remove-the-redundant-slash-when-policy-name-is-empty.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 b173a28f62cf929324a8a6adcc45adadce311d16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 21:57:58 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nf_ct_expect: remove the redundant slash when policy name is empty From: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b173a28f62cf929324a8a6adcc45adadce311d16 upstream. The 'name' filed in struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy{} is not a pointer, so check it is NULL or not will always return true. Even if the name is empty, slash will always be displayed like follows: # cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack_expect 297 l3proto = 2 proto=6 src=1.1.1.1 dst=2.2.2.2 sport=1 dport=1025 ftp/ ^ Fixes: 3a8fc53a45c4 ("netfilter: nf_ct_helper: allocate 16 bytes for the helper and policy names") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int exp_seq_show(struct seq_file helper = rcu_dereference(nfct_help(expect->master)->helper); if (helper) { seq_printf(s, "%s%s", expect->flags ? " " : "", helper->name); - if (helper->expect_policy[expect->class].name) + if (helper->expect_policy[expect->class].name[0]) seq_printf(s, "/%s", helper->expect_policy[expect->class].name); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liping.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/netfilter-nf_ct_expect-remove-the-redundant-slash-when-policy-name-is-empty.patch