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SubjectRE: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect failed
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Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 11:08 -0500, Eric Paris a écrit :

> 2) What should the generic TCP code (tcp_connect()) do if the skb failed
> to send. Should it return error codes back up the stack somehow or
> should they continue to be ignored? Obviously continuing to just ignore
> information we have doesn't make me happy (otherwise I wouldn't have
> started scratching this itch). But the point about ENOBUFS is well
> taken. Maybe I should make tcp_connect(), or the caller to
> tcp_connect() more intelligent about specific error codes?
>
> I'm looking for a path forward. If SELinux is rejecting the SYN packets
> on connect() I want to pass that info to userspace rather than just
> hanging. What's the best way to accomplish that?
>

Eric, if you can differentiate a permanent reject, instead of a
temporary one (congestion, or rate limiting, or ENOBUF, or ...), then
yes, you could make tcp_connect() report to user the permanent error,
and ignore the temporary one.



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