Please include this upstream netfilter/nf_conntrack fix patch in the Ubuntu 24 kernel(s)

Razvan Cojocaru rzvncj at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 07:21:14 UTC 2025


Hi,

On 8/12/25 2:02 PM, Thibault Ferrante wrote:
> On 08/08/2025 14:34, Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
>> The "netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix crash due to removal of 
>> uninitialised entry" [1] patch, that fixes a kernel crash, has been 
>> backported to all the longterm kernel versions from kernel.org.
> 
> This commit was integrated into stable v6.12.40 and we usually pick fix 
> from stable upstream kernel after few weeks.
> For the noble kernel, the latest pull from stable was submitted few days 
> ago [1] which included fixes up to v6.12.21 (written in the cover letter).
> 
>> However, I'm not seeing it in the Git repo for the Ubuntu noble kernel 
>> (6.8), in either master or master-next.
>>
>> If you've not considered backporting this patch to the affected Ubuntu 
>> kernels, please do.
> 
> As such, I would expect it to land in a few weeks.
> 
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2025-August/161859.html

I'm not seeing this in master-next or master-prep - am I looking in the 
wrong place? (It's now been more than a month since our initial 
correspondence).

Thanks!



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